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1922.

English Literature
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XVth to XVIIIth CENTURY.

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MAGGS BROS.

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ENGLISH
LITERATURE ir PRINTING

FROM THE

XVth to XVIIIth CENTURY,

PART 1 -A to L,

\ Selected from the Stock of

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English Literature and Printing

from the

XVth to the XVIIIth Century.

A'BECKET (Thomas) The Life, or the Eootesiasticall Historie of S.
Thomas, Arohbishope of Canterbvry,

With engraved frontispiece.

Small 8vo, old calf (rebacked). Cologne, 1639. £1 5s

I ACTS OF PARLIAMENT. Mackenzie (Sir GeorgeX Observation® on
the Acts of PaHiament, made by James the First, Second, Third,
fourth Fifth, Queen Mary, James the Sixth, Charles the First and
Second.

Small folio, original calf. Edinburgh, 1687. 12s 6d

ADDISON (Joseph). The Beaiaties of the Speotators, Tatters, ancf
Uuarciians, Connected and Digested under Alphabetical Heads.

, A fine exa^nfle of English binding of the eighteenth century
crimson morocco, in centre of u-pfer cover the letters *' I.T.'' {John Thom-
son) within a diamond, charming floral border of sprays of roses etc
yelloiv edges. /- ^ / , -,

Frontispiece.

2 vols. J small Svo. London, Tonson, 1763. £10 10s

* * ^ A Presentation Copy from Jonas Hanway to John Thomson, with a long letter
of 9 pp. signed by Hanway. ^ ^ ^^^

The Campaign. A Poem, to his Grace the Duke of Marlborough.

First Edition. Folio, half rjwrocco gilt, g. e.

London, 1705. £12 12s

"The success of his poem, the 'Campaign,' was rewarded bv promotion to
fi^,-^^ l''r^®T*'''*^!t'P ""^ state. Godolphin, according to Tickell, saw the poem when
tinished as far as^the applauded simile of the angel,' and gave the commissionership
m consequence. The anecdote has been coloured by the desire to represent Addison
as a poor author raised from a garret to fortune by discerning patronage. Godol-
pnin cared more for horse-racing than poetry, and was much less likely to reward the
author of a set of verses than to gratify an important politician bv advancing an
adherent. In any case, the poem and the simile achieved a great success. The
poem, like all Addison's performances of the kind, shows facility and poetic sensi-
bility, stopping short of poetic genius." (D.N B.) ^ f

2' MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W.

Addison (Joseph) — continued.

5 Maxims, Oliservatians, and Reflections, moral, political and

divine.

VJith engraved portrait.

^vo, original calf . London, 17 19, lOs 6d

6 Mlscetlaneous Works, in Verse and Prose; with some Account of

the Life and Writings of the Author, by Tickell.

4 vols., 8vo, original calf gilt. London, i/^S- £1 Is

7 A Poem to his Majesty presented to the Lord Keeper.

First Edition. ¥o\io, half morocco. London, 1695. £3 10s

Songs in the New Opera cali'd Rosamond, as they are perform'd

at the Theatre Royall. Composed by Mr. Tho. Clayton.

First Edition, engraved throughout, words and music. Folio, full
calf gilt by Riviere (1707). £5 lOs

* * * *' Addison condescended to write a musical piece on the Story of Fair Rosamond :
and when he had written his text, announced his wonderful taste in Music by abusing
the strange musician who had lately come to London, one ' Mynheer Handel ' as
he called him in contempt, and set Clayton to write the Score."

Q /ESOP. Fables of /Esop.

The complete set of plates by Hollar , published in the edition of 165 1 ,
consisting of portrait, frontispiece, and 81 copperplate engravings,
original impressions.

Small 4to, old calf gilt, with Arms on sides. 1651. £2 2s

10 Fables of >Esop and other Eminent Mythologists; with Morals

and Reflexions by Sir Roger L'Estramge.

Large portrait of V Estrange by White after Kneller, and plate.

Fables and Storyes moralized. Being a second part of the Fables
of yEsop, and other Eminent Mythologists, etc.

2 vols., folio, fine copy in original calf. London, 1694-99. £3 3s

1 1 AFRICA. L. (S.). A Letter frotn a Centlemati of the Lord Ambassador

Howard's Retimiei, to his Friend in London: Dated at Fez, Nov. 1,
1669. Wherein he gives a full Relation of the most Remarkable Passages
in their Voyage thither, aind of the present State of the Countries under
the Power of TlAFFALETTA, Emperour of Morcm:cO; With a brief account
of the Merchandizing Commodities of AFRICA; As also the Manners and
Customs of the People there.

36 pp., small 4to, new boards.

London, Printed by W. G. for Moses Pitt, 1670. £3 IDs

MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35. Conduit Street, London, W. 3

Africa — continued.

12 The Moores Baffled, being a Discourse concerning Tanger

especially when it was under the Earl of Teviot; by which you may find
what methods and Government is fittest to secure that place against the
Moors, in a letter from a learned person (long resident in that place) at
the desire of a person of quality.

With the scarce folding plate of Tangiers engraved by Hollar.

Small 4to, fine copy in full calf gilt, g. e. London, 168 1. £10 10s

13 A Short amd Strange Relation of some part of the Life of Tafi-

letta, the great Conqueror and Emperor of Barbary, by one that hath
lately been in His Majesties service iri that Country.

With the very rare engraved portrait of Tafiletta.

Small 4to, full calf. London, 1669. £6 6s

14 A True Relation of the Inhumane and UnparalleI'd Actions, and

BaHbarous Murders of Negroes or Moors: committed on three English-
men in Old Calabar in Guinny; together with a short but true account of
the Customs and Manners and Growth of the Country, which is very
Pleasant.

Small 4to, half calf, neat. London, 1672. £8 lOS

Uncut, in Original Wrappers.

15 AKENSIDE (Mark). The Pleasures of Imagination.

A Poem in three books. Vignette on title.

First Edition. 4to, a remarkable copy, in its original paper wrap-
pers, edges entirely uncut. London, Dodsley, i744- £6 "'^S

* * ^ Excessively Rare in this fine state,

" In this poem, as an elegant critic has observed with great propriety, he has united
the grace of Virgil, the colouring of Milton, the incidental expression of Shakespeare,
to paint the finest features of the human mind, and the most lovely forms of true
morality and religion."

Printed by the '* Anonymous Schoolmaster " at St. Albans, 1480.

16 ALBERTUS. Liber Modorum Signifioanfli.

One and a half leaves of this excessively rare book, printed at St..
Albans by '* The Anonymous Schoolmaster,'' 1480'.

Preserved in a portfolio, buckram sides, leather back, lettered both
on sides and back. *»lo loS

* * * NO PERFECT COPY OF THIS EXCESSIVELY HARE BOOK IS KNOWN TO
BE IN EXISTENCE. SPECIMENS OF THE BOOKS PRINTED BY ''THE
ANONYMOUS SCHOOLMASTER" ARE THE RAREST OF ALL ENGLISH
INCUNABULA, FAR RARER THAN ANYTHING CAXTON PRINTED THE
SCHOOLMASTER ISSUED ONLY EIGHT BOOKS, AND WORKED FROM 1480
TO 1486.

MAGGS BROS.. 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W.

17 ALBIN .Eleazer). A NaturaJ History of English Song-Blrds, including
such foreign birds as are usually brought over and esteemed for their
singing: their proper Management, Diseases, and Cures. To which are
added, figures of the cock, Hen, and egg of each species, exactly copied
from Nature, and curiously engraven on copper. _, ,- j

Frontispiece, and numerous copper -f late engravings of birds.

Post 8vo, original calf. London, 1779. 12s 6d

The Earliest Reformed Portion of the English Liturgy.

17a fALES, SEU HALES (Alexander, Scotus).] Ordo DIstrlbutioiiis Saora-
mentj Altarfs sub utraque Speoie.

12 leaves, i2mo, full morocco, g. e.
Haec Londini Evulgata sunt octavo die Martii anni 1548. £25

♦ ♦ * THE CX)MMUNION OFFICE OF EDWARD VI. AND THE EARLIEST RE-
I«X)RMED PORTION OF THE ENGLISH LITURGY ; made known to the churches
abroad by ALES who afterwards translated the Prayer Book into Latin. This Latin
version of the English Reformed Communion Service appeared a year before the
First English Prayer Book.

Alexander Ales, Lutheran divine, was born at Edinburgh, 1500. At Wittenberg in
1533 he made the acquaintance of Luther and Melanchthon, and he came to England
in August 1535 the bearer of a letter and a book for King Henry from Melanchthon.

" In the reign of Edward VI. Alesius seems once more to have visited England, where
Archbishop Cranmer employed him to translate into Latin the first liturgy of King
Edward V I, for the use of Martin Bucer and Peter Martyr, whose views on the
• Communion Book ' were desired by Cranmer, but who lacked the requisite know-
ledge of the English tongue. It is with reference to this piece of work and the
changes afterwards introduced into the communion service that, at a disputation
held at Oxford 18 April, 1554, between Latimer and a numerous body of opponents,
the prolocutor Dr. Weston declared that a * runagate Scot did take away the adora-
tion or worshipping of Christ in the sacrament ; by whose procurement that heresy
was put into the last communion book; so much prevailed that one man's authority
at that time.' " D.N.B.

i8 ALLE8TREE (Richard). Forty Sermons, whereof Twenty-one are now
first pubhsh'd, the greatest part preach'd before the King and on solemn
«^as">ns. To these is prefixt an Account of the Author's Life.
H^^M portrait by Loggan; title and text ruled with red lines.
Folio, full contemporary morocco gilt, gilt edges.
London, 1684. £1 153

19 A^^ANACKS. A Collection of Fourteen rare Astrological Almanacks
lOr the year 1678.

Bound in i vol., thick i2mo, full contemporary red morocco gilt
London, 1678. ^ ^fo iqs

*StoTe ^Whfti^^P^^ p"^"^ under the names of Lilly, Partridge, Andrews, Gadbury,
)ulJ2iiaSc :~ ' ' *'*^®"' *^®''® '^ *^® following very curious Quaked

^ Jt? jlifi^^?.^^'"'*"^^ /e*" ^^® P«°P^« ca"e<i by tbe Kien of the World Quakers,
with cunous Veraes, and the Quaker Cathechism at the end. vju^neis,

MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. 5

Almanacks — continued.

20 The Cefiitleman's and Citizei^s Almanack, Compiled by Saniuel

Watson, Bookseller, For the Year of our Lord, 1788. Being Leap-Year,
And the Twenty-eighth year of K. George III.

Fine specimen of contemporary Irish bindings crimson morocco with
a diamond shaped centre panel of white leather on both upper aiid lower
cover, the whole adorned with gold tooling of floral sprays introducing
the shamrock, dots, circular lines, stars, etc., gilt edges.

Small 8vo. Dublin, 1788. , £10 lOS

21 Londoni AlmianaD for th© year 1769.

Illustrated with folding view of W estminster Bridge.

An unusual specimen of bindi?ig of the second half of the i2ith
century; silk, upon which is most exquisitely painted in rich colours {un-
doubtedly by a native Japanese artist) the figure of a jap seated at the
foot of a tree {on front cover), and a Japanese lady sta?tding {on back
cover), preserved in its original shagreen case.

64mo (actual size, 2^ by ij inches). £5 5s

22 Rider's British Merlin, for the year of our Lord Cod 1758. Being

the Second after Bissextile or Leap-Year. AdormM with many delight-
ful and useful Verities, fitting all Capacities in the Islands of Great
Britain's Monarchy. With Notes of Husbandry, Fairs, Marts, High
Roads, and Tables for many necessary Uses.

i2mo, full red morocco, sides elaborately gilt tooled ivitJi designs
of birds, thistles, and other ornamentations, gilt back, g. e.

London, 1758. £1 15S

23 Rider's British! Merlin, for the year of our Lord Cod 1788. Being

the Bissextile, or Leap-Year. Adorned with many delightful and useful
Verities fitting all Capacities in the Islands of Great Britain's Monarchy,
With Notes of Husbandry, Fairs, Marts, &c.

i2mo, ftdl red morocco, gilt borders on sides, gilt edges.

London, 1788. 5S

24 The Royal KaJend^r; or. Complete and Correct Annual Register

for England, Scotland, Ireland and America, for the Year 1768.

i2mo, contemporary binding of crimson morocco, sides completely
covered with gold tooling of the cottage roof pattern, composed of flower
sprays, stars, dots, circles, birds, and insects, gilt edges.

London, 1768. £5 5s

MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W.

25 ANNE (Saint). An Abridgment of the Prerogatives of St. Ann, Mother

of the Mother of Cod. With the Approbation of the Doctors at Paris,
and thence done into English to accompany The Contemplations on the
Life and Glory of Holy Mary. To which a Preface is added concerning
the Original of the Story.

Small 4to, boards. London y 1688. 5s

26 ANONYMOUS. Pausanias the Betrayer of his Country. A Tragedy,

written by a Person of Quality.

First Edition. Small 4to, new boards. London, i6g6. £1 Is

* * * This tragedy was brought on the stage by Southern, who, in the dedication,
informs his patrons that it was put into his hands by a person of quality. We find
from Garth's *' Dispensary," 1699, that Norton was the Author of it.

27 TimO'leon, or The Revolution. A Tragi-Comedy.

First Edition. Small 4to, wrappers. London, 1697. £2 2s

Published anonymously. A very rare play unknown to Genest. Written in honour of
the arrival of William of Orange and the flight of James II.

28 Tragei*i"e of King Charles I., basely butchered ... in which

is included the Several Combinations and machination that brought that
incomparable Prince to the Block, the overtures hapning at the famous
Seige of Colchester, The Tragicall fals of Sir Charles Lucas and Sir
George Lisle, the Just Reward of the Leveller Rainsborough, Hamilton
and Bailies Trecheries, in delivering the late Scottish Army into the
hands o"! Cromwell and the designe the Rebels have to destroy the Royal
Posterity.

Small 4to {some headlines and forepart of the title cut by binder),
new boards. Printed in the year 164c/. £8 8S

♦ * * An excessively rare piece, preceded by six pages of poetry. Shakespeare and his

fellow dramatists are referred to in ''The Prologue to the Gentry."

" Though Johnson, Shakespeare, Goffe, and Davenant,
Brave Sucklin, Beaumont, Fletcher, Shurley want
The Life of Action, and their learned lines
Are loathed, by the Monsters of the times ;
Yet your refined Soules, can penetrate
Their depth of merit; " etc.

These lines are very interesting, as showing the state of feeling entertained by the
Puritans towards the dramatists.

This play was written at the time of the execution of the King.. It could, of course,
have only been acted in secret by the Royalist, as, holding up to execration, as it
does, Cromwell and the other Civil War Leaders, it would certainly have been rigidly
suppressed, which accounts for its exceeding rarity. It is not mentioned in Hazlitt's
Old Plays.

M^GGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. 7

2Q ANSTEY (Christopher). TJt© New Bath Glltde>; or, Memoirs of the
B — R — D Family, in a Series of Poetical Epistles.

First Edition. 4to, full calf. London, 1766. £1 16s

30 AN APOLOGIE OF PRIVATE MASSE, spred abroade in writing without
name of the Authour ; as it seemeth, against the offer & protestacion made
in certayne Sermons by the reverent father Bisshop of Salsbune; With An
Answer to the Same Apologie. Set foorth for the Maintenance & Defence
of the Trueth.

Woodcut title to the Second Part.

Small 8vo, full morocco gilt, g. e., by Lewis.

London ^ Thos. Pozuell, 1562. £4 4s

Large Paper Copy.

:;i ARIOSTO. Orlando Furioso,

In English Heroical Verse by S^ John Harington, of Bathe, Knight,
now thirdly revised & amended, with the addition of the Author's
Epigrams.

Engraved title, ivith medallion portraits, and full-fage engravings
in the text.

Large Papeir Copy. Folio, fine copy in the original calf, joints
neatly repaired.

London, Printed by C. Miller, 1634. £15 15s

^ * * The translator, Sir John Harington, was godson of Queen Ehzabeth. He studied
law at Lincohi's Inn, but not to much purpose, for his reputation as a wit and a
man of the world was soon established, and he looked to court favour rather than tlie
exercise of a profession. About 1584 he married Mary, daughter of Sir George
Rogers of Cannington in Somerset, but marriage does not seem to have sobered his
exuberant spirits. His epigrams began to pass current, and he enlivened the court
by his sallies, which were not always adapted to a fastidious taste. Among other
things, he translated for the amusement of the ladies of the court the story of
Giocondo, from the twenty-eighth book of Ariosto's " Orlando Furioso," and his
translation was handed about in manuscript till it fell into the hands of the queen.
She reprimanded Harington for corrupting the morals of her ladies by translating
the least seemly part of Ariosto's work, and ordered him as a punishment to leave
the court for his country house till he had made a translation of the whole. To
this we owe the translation of the " Orlando Furioso," which was first published in
folio in 1591, and reissued in 1607 and 1634. It is written in the same stanza as the
original, and is easy and flowing. It is rather a paraphrase than a translation. As
a preface to it Harington wrote '' An Apologie of Poetrie," an essay in criticism
which resembles Sir Philip Sidney's treatise of the same name. The most remark-
able part of it is that concerned with his use of metre, especially his defence of two-
syllabled and three-syllabled rhymes. (D.N.B.).

MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street. London, W.

32 ARITHMETIC. Flower (R). The Siqiercfigit.

In one Line of these Superdigits Arithmetic is wrought by Motion,
instead of Mental Reckoning, also the Universal Decimal Series, which
Series, upon the Superdigit, reduceth any Denominations of Com. Weight
Measures, Time, &c., into decimals infinitely continued by Inspection.
The whole being a New Arithmetic, invented by R. Flower.

Original Manuscript on upwards of 330 pp.y with diagrams, etc.

Small 4to, half calf. Circa 1780. £3 lOs

With interesting Note on fly-leaf by J. O. Halliwell, on this treatise.

♦ « *

33 ARMIN (Robert). The Valiant Welshnnan, or the True Chronicle History

of the Life and Valiant Deeds of Caradoc the Great King of Cambria now
called Wales. As it hath been, sundry times acted by the Prince of Wales
his Servants.

Woodcut frontispiece.

Small 4to, bound by Riviere in full polished calf gilt, g. e.

London, 1663. £31 10s

* * * The Frontispiece appears for the First time in this the Second Edition.

34 ARMSTRONG (John). Misoellames.

2 vols, in I, small 8vo, original calf , rebacked. London, 1770. £1 8s

*** Thomas Campbell's (the poet) copy, with his book-plate, and his Autograph
Signature on title-page.

35 ARNOLD (Richaid). Chfonjole of London, 1521,

In this boke is conteined ye names of the baylyfs, Custose, mayers
and sherefs of ye cyte of London from the tyme of Kynge Richard the
fyrst & also the artycles of ye Chartour & lybartyes of the same Cyte.
And of the chartour and lybartyes of England with other dyvers maters
good and necessary for every cytizen to understand and knowe.

Black Letter, woodcut initials.

Small folio, fidl morocco, blind tooled (no place or date of Printing
but circa 1521). £15 15s

♦ * * Margins of a few leaves and blank portion of last leaf restored, and some worm
holes, but otherwise a good copy of a very rare book.

In this book appeared the famous old English ballad of the Nut-Brown Maid.

Arnold's work is a commonplace book dealing with London antiquities. It contains
the chief charters granted to the city, accounts of its customs, and notes on a
variety of topics chiefly but not entirely connected with commerce. Hearne called it
a chronicle ; but its only claim to that title rests on its opening section, which gives,
with occasional historical notes, a list of the names of the " Baylifs, Gustos, Mairs,
and Sherefs " of London. Arnold himself gives the book no name ; Douce, its latest
editor, christens it the *' Customs of London."

MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. g

36 ASCHAM (Roger). The Scholemaster,

Or plaine and perfite way of teaching children, to understand, write,
and speake, the latin tonge, but especially purposed for the private
bringing up of youth in Gentlemen and noblemens houses, and commo-
dious also for all such, as have forgot the Catin tonge, and would, by
them selves, without a Scholemaster, in short time, and with small paines,
recover a sufficient habilitie, to understand, write and speake Latin.

Small 4to, calf. At London, Printed by John Daye, 1571. £9 9s

Bouud up at end is POOL (J.) THE YOUTH S GUIDE; or ENGLISH ACCIDENCE,
1670. Some marginal notes cut into.

Although his method failed to gain currency. Ascham's '* Scholemaster " at once took
its permanent place as an English classic. The whole work abounds with choice
anecdotes, admirable reflexions, pregnant sentiments from pagan authors, scholarly
criticisms; and exhibits throughout, moreover, a deep yet kindly estimate of the
boy nature, which makes it one of the most suggesstive and fascinating books in
the English language, and justly entitles the author to the praise bestowed upon
him by Gabriel Harvey of being " a flower spring of humanity."

37 ToxophiluSy The Schoole, or partitions of Shooting contayned m

J:wo bookes, Written by Roger Ascham And now newly perused.
Pleasaunt for all Gentlemen and Yomen of England for their pastime to
reade, and profitable for their use to follow both in Warre and peace.

Black Letter, ivoodcnt border to title.

Small 4to, newly bound in fidl calf gilt, g. e.

At London, Printed by Abell Jeffes, 1589. £18 18s

* * * The book is written in dialogue form betweeii Toxophilus (Ascham himself) and

Philologus, a Greek tutor of Cambridge (doubtless Sir John Cheke).
The first part formed an argument in favour of archery as a recreation for students.

The English Works of Roger Ashami,

containing, a Report of the Affairs of Germany and the Emperor Charles
the Fifth's Court : Toxophilus, or the School of Shooting : The School-
master : Letters to Queen Elizabeth : with notes and observations, and
the Author's Life by James Bennet.

4to, calf. London, circa 1760. £1 10s

SQ ASTROLOGY. Blackwel (James). Th« Nativity of Mr. Will. Lilly
Astrologically pe'rformecf; shewing how he hath lived, and by what
death he may probably die. For the satisfaction of Astrologers and
others.

Small 4to, 15 pp., neiv boards.

London, Tho. Johnson, 1660. £1 16s

*** " Wm. Lilly, a celebrated English Astrologer, was born in 1602. He was em-
ployed by both parties during the Civil War; he, however, gained more from the
parliamentary party ; and the predictions contained in his almanacs had a wonderful
effect upon the soldiers and common people."

This pamphlet is really an attack on him.

10 MAGGS BROS.. 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W.

Astrology — continued.

Presentation Copy.

40 Cadbury (John, Student in Physick and Astrology). Cardlflies

CobN: or An Appeal to the learned and Experienced Observers of
Sublunars and their Vicissitudes, whether the Cardinal Signs of Heaven
are not most influential upon Men and Things proved by X Remarkable
Genitures, &c. In a Reply to the learned Author of Cometomantia :
wherein the character of Gassendus is defended, and sundry other Starry-
Truths are Justified.

Small 4to, bound by Riviere in full mottled calf gilt ^ g. e.

London, 1684. £8 8s

*** Presentation Copy from the Author to John Gibbon, Blue-Mantel at Arms, with
inscription by Gadbury on fly-leaf, MS. nativity by him of Gibbon and numerous
Notes, and further a long and most interesting Autograph letter of Gadburv's on
Astrological Subjects.

41 Gassentfus (Petrus). The Vaitity of Judiciary Astrology, or

Divination by the Stars. Lately written in Latin, by that great Schollar
and Mathematician, the illustrious Petrus Gassendus; mathematical Pro-
fessor to the King of France. Translated into English by a person of
quality.

With engraved portrait.

Small 8vo, old calf, rebacked. London, 1659. 15S

42 ASTRONOMY. Hevelius (J.). Animadversions on the first part of the

Machina Coelestis of the Honourable, Learned, and deservedly Famous
Astronomer Johannes Heveliiis, Consul of Dantzick; together with an
Explication of some Instruments made by Robert Hooke, Professor of
Geometry in Gresham College.

With three folding plates.

Small 4to, itew boards. London, 1674. £1 15s

43 Hooke (Robert). Lectures and Collections made by Robert Hooke

on Comets and the Microscope.

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Small 4to, neiv boards. London, 1678. £1 15s

44 AUGUSTINE (St.). Of the CItie of Cod. With the Learned Comments
of lo. Lod. Vives. Englished by J. H.[ealey].

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45 BACON (Sir Francis). CertaJne Miscellany Wotks of the Right Honour-

able Franci?i Lo. Verulam, Viscount S. Alban. Published by William
Rawley.

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London, i62g. £4 10s

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46 The Confession of Faithi: Written by Sr. Francis Bacon.

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almost everywhere to be found in his various works, but it is not from such ' inci-
dental allusions,' as Spedding says, that ' we are left to gather his Creed.' In his
own Confession we have it explicitly set forth. This formulary was first printed in
quarto form in the year 1641, and is a little work of excessive rarity. Indeed, this
special edition was unknoAvn to Lowndes and Hazlitt, and of late years, so far as I
know, only two copies have appeared for sale — one in May, 1903, and the other in
May, 1905, both at Messrs. Sotheby's rooms. It contains a large portrait of Bacon
on the title. It was probably written in the year 1603, and it is interesting to
remember that at this very time his life was full of anxiety, not only with weighty
problems of State, but also with pressing private concerns. In his ambition he was
then most eager to obtain high office under James the First, and the appointment
of King's Counsel was then bestowed upon him." (G. W. Steeves.)

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its tones were finest, he may read it here."

47 The Elements of the Common Lawes of England, branched into

a double Tract : the one containing a Collection of Some principall Rules
and Maximes oj the Common Law, with their Latitude and Extent,
explicated for the more facile Introduction of such as are studiously
addicted to that noble profession, the other the use of the Common Law,
for preservation of our Persons, Goods and Customes of this Land.

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48 The Elements of the Common Lawes of England,

branched into a double Tract; the one containing a Collection of some
principall Rules & Maximes of the Common Law, with their Latitude &
Extent explicated for the more facile Introduction of Such as are
studiously addicted to that noble Profession, the other the use of the
Common Law, for preservation of our Persons, Goods & Good Names.
According to the Lawes & Customes of this Land.

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4Q The Essayes or Counsels CIvill and Morall.

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The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh.

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The Hcstorie of the Reigne of King Henry the Seventh, whereunto

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52 History, Naturall and Experimental!, of Life and Death, or of

the Prolongation of Life.

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Glover, and the *' Impimatur " leaf.

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53 The Natural! and Experimentan History of Winds, &c.

Written in Latine by the Right Honorable Francis Lo : Verulam,
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54 Of the Advancement and Profioienoe of Learning, or the Parti-
tions of Sciences, IX Bookes, written in Latin b}^ the most eminent Illus-
trious & Famous Lord Francis Bacon, interpreted by Gilbert Watts.

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of Enquiry touching Metals and Minerals (with separate title dated lO^L/J
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Prolongation of Life (with separate title); and the New Atlantis, a work
unfinished (with separate title).
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John Locke, with his autograph signature inside the front cover, and an Index ot

3 leaves at the beginning in his handwriting.

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writings." (R. W. Church.)

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57 Life and MisceJianeous Works of Rt. Hon. Francis Lo. Verulam,

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of a Digest — Reign of Henry VIII. (each work with a separate title-page).

i;8 Bacotliana, or Certain Genuine Remains of Sr Francis Bacon,

Baron of Verulam and Viscount of St. Albans; in arguments Civil and
Moral, Natural, Medical, Theological, and Bibliographical; now the first
time faithfully published.

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50 BACON (Phannel). The Kite; an Heroi-Comical Poem.
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60 BADGER in the Fox-Trap^ or a Satyr upon Satyrs. A Poem. 8 pp.

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61 BAKER (Sir Richard). A Chronicle of the Kings of England, from the

Time of the Romans Government, unto the Death of King James the
First. Whereunto is added. The Reign of King Charles the First, and
King Charles the Second. Engraved title.

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62 Theatrum Redlvivum;

or, the Theatre Vindicated in Answer to Mr. Pryn's Histrio-Mastix :
wherein his groundless Assertions against Stage-Plays are discovered,
his Mistaken Allegations of the Fathers manifested, as also what he calls
his Reasons, to be nothing but his Passions.

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* * * This Work was written by Sir Richard Baker whilst a prisoner for Debt in Fleet

Prison. It was not published till after his death.
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and Alleyn, and much good sense in the General Argument." (D.N.B.)

6.S BAKER (Thomas). Tunt)ridg;e Walks; or, the Yeoman of Kent. A
Comedy, as it is Acted at the Theatre Royal, by her Majesty's Servants,
by the Author of " The Humour o' the Age."

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character named ** Maiden," which was intended by the Author as a portraiture of

himself.

64 BALLAD Upon the Suppression of Conventicles.

2 pp., folio, new boards. London, 1685. 14s

65 BALZAC (J. L. Quez de). The Choyce Letters of Monsieur de Balzac,

written to several! Grand and Eminent persons in France. Whereunto
are annexed the familiar letters of Monsieur de Balzac to his friend
Monsieur Chapelain. Never before in English.

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66 BANKS (John). Cyrus the Great: or the Tragedy of Love.

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* * * This play was at first forbidden, but afterwards came on and met with very
good success. Downes says that Smith, having a long part in it, fell ill upon the
fourth day and died. This occasioned it to be laid aside, and it was not acted after-
wards.

67 Vertlte Betray'd: or, Anna Bullen, a Tragedy.

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London^ 1682. £3 15s

Has an interesting reference to Shakespeare in the Dedication.

* * * This tragedy, on the story of Anna Boleyn, was the most successful of all

Banks' works, and held the stage until 1766.

68 BARBOUR (John). The Life and Acts of thei most Victorious Conqueror
Robert Bruce King of Scotland,

Carefully corrected from the edition printed by Andro Hart in 1620.

Black Letter. Small 4to, original calf. Edinburgh, 1758. £1 5s

6q BARCLAY (John). Argenis.

Cum Clave, hoc est, nominum propriorum elucidatione hactenus
nondum edita.

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* ^ ^ First of the seven Elzevir editions.

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looking into. . . In his characters the critic has gradually worked out Henry III.
of France, Henry IV., Phillip II. of Spain, Queen Elizabeth, the Guises, Pope
Urban VIII., John Calvin, and many political celebrities." — Hill Burton.

70 Icon Animorum.

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71 The MirrOiUr of Mindes, or, Barclay's Icon Animorum, Enghshed

by T(ho.) M(ay).

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London, 163 1. £2 2s

Treats of France, Germany, Spaine, Hungary, Polonia, Moscovia, Turkes, Jewes, etc.
Slightly wormed.

72 Barclay's Argenis. The Phoenix; or, the History of Polyarchus

and Argenis.

Translated from the Latin, by a Lady (Clara Reeve).
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73 BARON (Robert). Mirza, a T^ragedie.

Really acted in Persia, in the last Age.

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his ' Sophy,' and which may be found in Sir Thomas Herbert's 'Travels ' ; yet
Baron has handled it in a different manner from that author, having finished three
complete acts of this before he saw that tragedy; nor found himself then dis-
couraged from proceeding, on a consideration of the great difference in their respec-
tive pursuits of the same plan. Baron has made Jonson's ' Catiline ' in great
ineasure his model, having not only followed the method of his scenes, but even
imitated his language ; and anyone may perceive that his ghost of Emirhamze Mirza
is an evident copy of that of Sylla in ' Catiline,' It is, however, a good play, and
is commended by five sets of verses by his Cambridge friends; but it does not
seem to have been acted." — W. C. Hazlitt.

74 BARROW (Isaac). Lectiones XVIII., Cantabrigiae in Scholis publicis

habitae; in quibus opticorum phaenomon genuinae rationes investigan-
tur, ac exponuntur.

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75 Th© Warks af the Learned Isaac Barrow. Published by the

Reverend Dr. Tillotson. The Second Volume containing Sermons and
Expositions upon all the Articles in the Apostles' Creed.

With finely engraved portrait by Loggan.

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sides, g. e. London, 1683. £1 lOs

*** The Earl of Chatham studied Barrow's Sermons as models of eloquence, and

confessed that he was more indebted to them than to any other work, ancient or

modern, for the energy which so peculiarly marked his own parliamentary harangues.

76 BA8KERVILLE PRESS. /Esop. Select Fables of /Esop and other

Fabulists.

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Ty — Book Of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments

and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, together with the Psalter.
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78 CatuJIi, Tibulli, et Propertii Opera.

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79 Fellows (John). Hymns on Believers' Baptism.

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80 Horace. Quintus Horatius Flaccus.

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81 Milton (John). Paradise Lost. A Poem.

Paradise Regained. A Poem, in Four Books. To which is added
Samson Agonistes: and Poems upon Several Occasions.

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** * Presentation Copy from John Home, the Author of " Douglas," with an interest-
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82 Somervile (WilHam). The Chase, a Poem; to which is added

Hobbinol, or the Rural Games.

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Baskerville Press, Birmingham, 1767. £1 12s

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83 Terence. Publli Terentit Afri Comoediae.

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84 Terence. Publli Terentii Afri Comoediiae.

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86 — ^ — Testamentum Novum, Grseoe.

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87 BATE (George). Eletichus Matuuim tiuperomtn in Anglia; simul ac Juris
Regii et Parlamentarii brevis enarratio.

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covered with gold ermine spots, ivithin a border of tear-drops, edges gilt.

Lutetide Parisiorum, Pro R. R. An. Dom. 1649. £4 4s

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Charles I. It was written by George Bate.

88 BATE (John). Th© Mysteries of Nature and Art, In four severall Parts.
The first of Water- Works; The second, of Fire Works; the third, of
Drawing, Colouring, Limming, Paynting, Engraving, and Etching;
The fourth, of sundry Experiments.

The Third Edition, with many additions.

Engraved and printed title-pages, and numerous woodcuts in the
text.

Small 4to, half calf.

London-. Printed by R. Bishop for Andrew Crook, 1654. £1 16s

89 BAXTER (Richard). The Certainty of the World of Spirits fully evinced
by the unquestionable Histories

{Apparitions
Operations
Witchcrafts
Voices, &c.,

proving the Immortahty of Souls, the Malice and Misery of the Devils
and the Damned, and the Blessedness of the Justified.

First Edition. Small 8vo, half calf. London, 1691. £2 5s

* * * i3y Richard Baxter, Author of '' The Saints' Everlasting Rest."

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90 A Christian Directory;

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Christians how to use their Knowledge and Faith, how to improve all
Helps and Means, etc.

Portrait by White^ and engraved emblematical title.

Folio, original calf^ covered with canvas^ and lettered.

London, 1678. £10 lOs

* * * A most interesting memento of the great Presbyterian Divine and Author. Pre-

sented by him to the then Minister of his birthplace, Eaton Constantine, in Shrop-
shire, and bears the following signed inscription in the Author's autograph: —

*' As a testimony of my Love to the place of my ancestors habitation, I desire the
present minister of Eaton Constantine, to accept this booke from Ri. Baxter."

91 The Saints' Everlasting Rest; or, a Treatise of the Blessed State

of the Saints in their enjoyment of God in Glory. Wherein is shewed
its Excellency & Certainty; the Misery of those that lose it, the Way
to Attain it, & Assurance of it: & how to live in the continual delight-
ful Foretasts of it, by the help of Meditation.

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edges. London, 1650. £16 16s

* * * Complete with the General Title, the three separate titles (Second, Third and

Fourth parts), the Errata leaf and tl.e poem by Herbert, 4 pp. at end.

" ' The Saints' Everlasting Rest ' in its deep piety, its clear and beautiful style, the
dignity and enthusiasm and modernness of its language, have made it an English
classic. Narrow as Baxter's system may seem, we feel that he is more tolerant
than his creed, and at the root of all his stubborn individuality lies a true and
tender conscience. If the Nonconformity of the Stuart age laid heavy burdens on
men's shoulders, it suffered from the consequences of its actions. In its provision
for men of religion it brought upon itself the severity of secular opinion. But it
left two priceless gifts to lEnglish literature and English religion in the ' Pilgrim's
Progress ' and the ' Saints' Rest.' " — (William Holden Hutton.)

92 BAYLY (Lewis). The Practise of Pietie.

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engraved title by Elsfrak.

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Arms of the Stationer' s Company, t/te edges gilt and gauffered.

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High and Mighty Prince Charles, Prince of Wales," and in all probability was
prepared for presentation to him.

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The Original Manuscript.
93 BEALING (Captain Richard). Boadicea; or, The British Queen. A
Tragedy.

The Original Manuscript most beautifully written in a copper-
plate hand on 66 leaves, with title-page written in elaborate letters, and
ivith an Original Drawing in sepia of the Death of Boadicea as heading
to the " Dramatis Personae.''

Foho, iit a contemporary English binding of crimson morocco,
elaborate gold panelled sides, gilt back, g. e. 1722. £21

* * * This important and hitherto unknown play was the subject of a long article in
THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT for August 22, 1918. It was described in
that paper as follows : —

" Boadicea or The British Queen, a Tragedy, by Captain Richard Bealing, 1722, is a
folio volume, in contemporary red morocco, with panelled sides and gold tooling.
It is beautifully written in a large, clear, round hand, almost certainly the work of
a professional scribe. At the end of the volume there is pasted a vellum leaf on
which is carefully drawn and tricked the genealogical tree of the author's family,
and signed ' Tho. Harvey, Pinx. 1730 ' ; and to the explanatory text is added, in a
much later hand, the information that the author's only daughter married Major
Simon Bradstreet, whilst their only daughter married Lieutenant-Colonel Robert
Garstin. The grandfather of the author, another Richard Bealing (whose mother's
name was Chomley), married a Miss Constable, and their son was Marmaduke
Bealing, who matriculated at St. Edmund Hall, Oxford, March 24, 1693-4, aged
seventeen, and who married Anne, daughter of James Hearnes ; their only son, the
author, married Sarah Surby. There can be no doubt that the genealogical tree
was compiled, after his death, for his only daughter, Anna Elizabeth Bealing, as it
has on its base a crescent inscribed with her name, ' A. E, Bealing.' Captain
Richard Bealing, J. P. for Middlesex, died on October 20, 1723, ' at a very advanced
age.' The play was probably written some years before 1722, and probably under
the influence of Addison's Cato, which was produced at Drury Lane in 1713.
" The subject of Boadicea, which Captain R. Bealing took as that of his play, had
already engaged John Fletcher, who wrote a tragedy of it in 1611, and on many
later occasions it formed the inspiration of the writers of other pieces for the stage.
Bealing' s Boadicea reveals the influence of Addison and the patriotism which glowed
so fiercely in the earlier years of the eighteenth century. He may possibly have
been inspired to write the tragedy from a passage in Addison's Freeholder of
January 16, 1715: — ' And let those who have outlived their husbands never forget
their countrywoman, who headed her troops in person against the invasion of a
Roman army, and encouraged them with this memorable saying: '* I, who am a
woman, am resolved upon victory or death ; but as for you, who are men, you may,
if you please, choose life and slavery." ' The motto which he selected for his play
consisted of two lines from the author of Cato : —
'' ' 'Tis Liberty that crowns Britannia's Isle,

And makes her Barren Rocks and her bleak Mountains smile.'
" There are five acts, and the last scene fittingly closes with the death of the Queen,
whose final speech concludes : —

'' ' But gallant Adoc,

Whose breast ever was inspir'd with virtue,

And his country's glory: shall try once more

What Arms can do to save her from the yoak -

These Romans would impose : — He in the fight

Beheld Protea fall, close by his side :

Inrag'd he drove the foe across the plain.

Do thou, O Heav'n! to recompense my fate.

Prosper his Arms, and save my country.'

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Beating (Captain Richard) — continued.

" In the epilogue, spoken by Cassibelan, the author anticipated trouble with the
critics; and he gets his blow in first when he declares: —

'* ' He freely owns our Modern Critick he despises,
Whose censure solely from ill-nature rises.'

''Lest there should be any doubt as to which critic he refers to, the name of 'Mr.

D is ' is written in the margin. But John Dennis was not to have the chance to

add another playwright's scalp to his belt."

94 BEAUMONT (Francis) and FLETCHER (John). The Elder Brother, A

Comedy, as it is now acted at the Theatre Royal.

Small 4to, new boards. London^ 1678. £2 2s

95 — \ A King and No King, Acted at the Black-Fryars, by his Maies-

ties Servants. And now the fourth time printed, according to the true
Copie.

Small 4to, full calf gilt.

London^ Printed by E. G. for William Leake, 1639. £3 3s

* * ^ A very fine copy, with many uncut leaves.

96 The Maides Tragedy, as it has been divers times Acted at the

Black Friers by the Kings Maiesties Servants.

The Fifth Impression, revised and refined. Woodcut on title.

Small 4to, boards.

London, Printed by E. P. for William Leake, 164 1, £4 4s

97 The Wild-Goose Chase.

A Comedie, as it hath been Acted with Singular Applause at the
Black-Friers : being the Noble, Last and Onely Remains of those In-
comparable Drammatists.

First Edition. Folio, full -polished calf gilt, g. e., by Riviere.

London, Printed for Humphrey Moseley, 1652. £30

Tall copy, blank corner of last three leaves neatly repaired.

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Beaumont (Francis) and Fletcher (John) — continued.

98 Works. First Edition.

Comedies

and

Tragedies

r Francis Beaumont)

written by \ and \ Gentlemen

(^ John Fletcher )

Never printed before

And now published by the Authours

Originall Copies

Si quid habent veri Y atuni praesagia, vivam.

London

Printed for Humphrey Robinson, at the three Pidgeons, and foi

Humphrey Moseley at the Princes Armes in St. Pauls

Church Yard 1647.

THE FIRST EDITION, with the beautiful portrait engraved bjA^
Marshall.

Folio, old calf.

London^ 16^7. £75

•* * * Edited by the poet Shirley. It is dedicated to Philip Earl of Pembroke, and the
publishers remind Lord Pembroke that the works " of the then expired Sweet Swan
of Avon Shakespeare " were also dedicated to him.

There are probably no two books so frequently quoted from the various Shakespeare J]
commentators as the folio Beaumont and Fletcher and the folio Ben Jonson. (No.ji|
954 of this Catalogue.)

Shakespeare is eulogised in the commendatory verses by Denham, Howell, Buck, Cart-
wright, and Birkenhead.

*' The dramas of Beaumont and Fletcher stand higher than those even of Ben Jonson,
and, of all the dramatic writings of that day, come nearest to the magic circle which
encloses Shakespeare. Their wonderful knowledge of stage effect doubtless helped
their popularity. At the same time, they abound in striking beauties, both of
thought and language, and the general tone of their works is of an elevating
character."

First Illustrated Edition.

99 The Works of Mr. Francis Beaumont and Mr. John Fletcher; iri

Seven Volumes.

Revis'd and Corrected : With some Account of the Life and Writ-
ings of the Authors, and adorned with Cuts.

A Large Paper Copy of the First 8vo (and First Illustrated)
Edition, adorned zvith portraits of Beaumont and Fletcher^ and a plate
to each Play.

7 vols., royal 8vo, original calf.

London^ Printed for Jacob Tonson, 1711. £14 148

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Beaumont (Francis) and Fletcher (John) — continued.

100 Works. In Ten Volumes. Collated with all the former Editions,

and Corrected.

With Notes Critical and Explanatory by the late Mr. Theobald, Mr.
Seward of Eyam in Derbyshire, and Mr. Sympson of Gainsborough.

2 portraits.

10 vols., 8vo. Fine Copy in original calf.

London, Printed for J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper in the Strand,
1750. £5 5s

10 1 BECKFORD (Wm). Recollections of an Excursion to the Monasteries of

Alcobaca and Bataiha: by the Author of " Vathek."

First Edition. Portrait. 8vo, calf gilt. London, 1835. 8s 6cl

102 BEHN (Mrs. Aphra). A Pindarick Poem on the Happy Coronation of his

most Sacred Majesty James IL and his illustrious Consort Queen Mary.
First Edition. Folio, nezv boards. London, 1685. ^2 tOs

(One or two bottom lines touched by the binder.)

By the First Printer at Norwich, England.

103 BELIJDENISSE ende eenvoudige wtlegginge des waerachtigen gheloofs

. . . in Switzerlant.

Small 8vo, vellum.

Anno 1568. Gheprint tot Nordwitz by Antoniuin Solemne. (Nor-
wich, 1568.) £34

* * * This is one of, if not the first book printed at Norwich. It is " A CONFESSION
OF FAITH BY THE MINISTERS OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST IN
SWITZERLAND AND IN FRANCE," and ours is the only copy of the book that
we can trace. It formerly belonged to Lord Amherst, of Hackney, who in 1877
exhibited it in the Caxton Exhibitions.

The copy lacks two leaves (37 and 38), but is otherwise in excellent condition.

Accompanying the volume is a letter of Quaritch's to Lord Amherst, dated 1876, in
which he writes : —

" IT SEEMS TO BE A UNIQUE COPY. ... I HAVE NOT TRACED A COPY
ANYWHERE, THE VOLUME IS IN EXCELLENT CONDITION, IN THE ORI-
GINAL VELLUM WRAPPER."

Two other works (Psalms and New Testament) were printed in 1568 by this printer
at Norwich; there is no record as to which of the three actually appeared first.

" During the persecutions in the Netherlands, under the Duke of Alva, there was a
considerable influx of the inhabitants of those countries into the south-eastern parts
of England, and a great number of them found a welcome home in the city of
Norwich.

" Here settled one, Anthony de Solemne, or Solempne, introducing the art of printing,
which, says Blomefield, in his History of Norfolk, ' was so well approved of by the
city, that they presented him with his freedom.' This was in 1570, when Solemne
had also obtained the Queen's authority to exercise his art."

The productions of this press are all remarkably scarce, and mostly printed by Solemne
for the use of his countrymen in their own language.

104 BETTERTON (Thomas). Life, wherein the Action and Utterance of

the Stage, Bar, and Pulpit, are consider' d, also The Amorous Widow, a
Comedy, by T. Betterton.

Oval portrait after Kneller.

%vOy original calf gilt. London, 17 10. £1 4s

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BIBLES.

The Great Bible.

105 The Byble in Englyshe of the largest and greatest volume, auctorysed

and apoynted by the Commaundements of cure moost redoubted Prynce,
and Soueraygne Lorde Kynge Henyre the VIII., etc.

With Woodcut General Title and 'New Testament Title, containing
the Holbein Borders, with CromwelV s Arms erased, and woodcut titles
to farts 2, 3 and 4, in compartments, together with woodcuts in the text.

Royal folio, bound by Bedford in full levant morocco gilt* g. e.

Printed by Edwarde Whitechurch, 1 541. £47 lOSt

A fine and perfect Copy. The headlines of four or five leaves are a little cut into.

The Sixth Great Bible and the fifth with Cranmer's Prologue.

" The hole byble of the largyest volume " which Thomas Cromwell, as the King's vice-'
regent, in an injunction to the Clergy, ordered to be set up in '' sum convenient place
wythin the said church that j^e have caire of, where as your parishoners may most^
comodiously resorte to the same and reade it."

In April, 1541, Anthony Marler received permission to sell copies of the Great Bible
unbound for x.s. sterling, and bound, being trimmed with bullyons, for xii.s. sterling
(equivalent to about £6 and £7 5s. to-day). And in the next month a royal pro-
clamation announced the heavy penalties to which each parish was liable which failed
to provide its church with a copy by the November following.

The First Critical Edition of the New Testament in English.

106 The Newe Testament of Our Lord Jesus Christ. Conferred diligently

with the Greke, and best approued translations.

With the arguments, as wel before the chapters, as for every Boke
& Epistle, also diuersities of readings, and moste profitable annotations
of all harde places : whereunto is added a copious Table.

Printed on green paper. ^^^^

Small 8vo, green morocco, gilt edges. IBl

Geneva, Printed by Conrad Badius, 1557. £15 15s

* * * Some marginal notes shaved in the binding.

This neat octavo is the earliest English Testament printed in roman type, and withl
verse divisions. With its elaborate apparatus of arguments, notes, and tables, it
forms the first critical edition of the New Testament in English.

This version of the New Testament is ascribed to William Whittingham, one of th
band of English reformers who found an asylum at Geneva. The text is based upon
Tindale's, compared Avith the Great Bible, and largely influenced by Beza's Latin
translation.

Though this version forms the groundwork of the New Testament in the Geneva Bible
of 1560, it is a distinct work, due to one translator, as the Address To the. Reader
seems to show. Fry asserted that the text of this Testament was not reprinted in
any of the numerous Geneva Bibles or separate Testaments, from 1560 to 1644, which
he had examined.

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Bibles — continued.

First Edition of the Genevan Bible.

107 The Bible and Holy Scriptures conteyned in the Olde and Newe Testament.

Translated according to the Ebrue and Greke and conferred with the
best translations in divers langages.

With moste profitable annotations upon all the hard places, and
other things of great importance as may appeare in the Epistle to the
Reader.

Woodcut on title.

4to, straight- grain red morocco.

Geneva, Printed by Roivland Hall, 1560. £21

*** The First Edition of the ''Geneva Version," and the earliest Complete Bible
printed in Roman type and with verse divisions. Translated by W. Whittingham.
Anthony Gilby, Thomas Sampson, and, perhaps, others, at Geneva.

A VERY TALL COPY. The first title and following leaf margined and facsimiled,
and lacking two of the preliminary leaves ; also some other leaves margined and
repaired. It contains, however, the five Maps on separate leaves, which are usually
missing.

The Geneva Bible showed a distinct advance on its predecessors, and, appearing as it
did in compact form, with Roman type and verse divisions, obtained speedy and
permanent popularity. Its arguments and numerous explanatory notes (often dis-
tinctly Calvinistic in tone), which amount to a running commentary, endeared it
especially to the Puritans, and for three generations it maintained its supremacy
as the Bible of the people. Its phrases find an echo in Scripture quotations from
Shakespeare to Bunyan. Between 1560 and 1644 at least 140 editions appeared of
the Geneva Bible or Testament. Examination of King James' Bible of 1611 shows
that its translators in correcting the Bishops' Bible were influenced more by the
Geneva than by any other English version.

This is also the First Issue of the "Breeches Bible," having the rendering breeches
for aprons, in Gen. iii. 7.

In Ecclus. XV. 13 occurs the following error: "The Lord hateth all abomination of
errour : and they that feare God wil love it."

The First Issue of the Bishops' Bible, 1568. '' The ' Treacle ' Bible."

108 The Holie Bible, conteyning the Olde Testament and the Newe.

Printed in Black Letter.

Portrait of Queen Elizabeth on first title, one of the Ecirl of Leices-
ter on title of Fart 11., and one of Lord Burleigh at the beginning of the
Psalms, numerous fine woodcuts within borders, some by Virgil Solis,
and ttumero2is figured and ornajnental initials, including Leda and the
Swan, and other classical subjects.

Thick large folio, old calf. London, R. Jugge, 1568. £63

* * * The first issue of the Bishops' Bible, which is hardly ever found perfect. This is

a perfect copy; the first title has blank margins renewed, and there are a few slight

repairs to the blank margins of last four leaves.

In typography and illustration this is perhaps the most sumptuous in the long series

of' folio English Bibles. This version was undertaken by Matthew Parker, Arch-

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Bibles — continued.

bishop of Canterbury, with the assistance of many bishops and well-known Biblical
scholars.

This was the second attempt made by the heads of the English Church to translate the
Bible for the use of all English-speaking people. The first, in Henry VIII. 's time,
failed, from their being unable to decide how many Latin words should be retained.
But that the Bishops at both periods should be equal to such a task, one requiring
Biblical research and accurate critical scholarship, is a proof that in those days the
sees were filled by the Bishop of Rome, and afterwards by the Crown, not from
favouritism and political motives only, as has often been represented, but by men
of the highest attainments. Although initials were affixed by most of the translators
to their work, it was the desire of Parker that the translation should be regarded as
the work of the Church, and not of private men. As each translator finished the
parcel (as it was called) assigned to him he returned it to the Primate, who super-
vised it.

When complete it was properly and formally sanctioned by Convocation, and a copy
was presented to Queen Elizabeth on Oct. 5, 1568.

The following curious reference to Christopher Columbus occurs at Psalm XLV.,
verse 9: " Ophir is thought to be the Ilande in the west coast, of late founde by
Christopher Columbo : fro whence at this day is brought most fine golde."

This is also called the '* Treacle " Bible on account of the reference in Jeremiah VIII.
verse 22 : —

*' Is there no treacle in Gilead? "

The Earliest Complete Latin Bible Printed in England.

log Testamenti Yeteris Biblia Sacra Sive Ljbri Canonici, Priscae ludaeorui
Ecclesiae a deo Traditi. Latini recens ex Hebraeo facti, brevibusqu(
Scholiis illustrata ab Immanuele Tremellio & Francisco lunio. Accesse-
runt libri qui vulgo dicuntur Apocryphi. Latine redditi & notis qui-
busdam aucti a Francisco Junio. Multo omnes quam ante emendatius
editi.

Small thick 4to. Fine Copy in the original binding of oak boards
covered with sta^nfed leather^ introducing the Tudor Rose, Croivned
portcullis, etc. London, 1580. £7 lOs

The Editio Princeps of the Roman Catholic Version of the New

Testament in English.

no The New Testament of Jesus Christ, translated faithfully into EngHsh
out of the authentical Latin. In the English College of Rhemes.

First Edition. Fine tall copy, and has inserted to face title-page
a curious engraving, entitled, " Time's Lecture to Man,'' with verses
within engraved border.

Small 4to, full calf gilt, gilt border on sides.

Printed at Rhemes by John Fogny, 1582. £10

* * * This was translated from the Vulgate by Gregory Martin, under the supervisio:
of William Allen (afterwards Cardinal Allen), and of Richard Bristow.

This Rheims New Testament exerted a very considerable influence on the version o'
1611, transmitting to it not only an extensive vocabulary, but also numerous dis
tinctive phrases and turns of expression.

Alien was the first President, and Bristow was Moderator (or Prefect of studies) o

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the English Roman Catholic College, established in 1568 in connection with the
University of Douai, and removed temporarily to Rheims, 1578-93. Martin was one
of the original scholars of St. John's College, Oxford, and is described in Wood's
Athenae Oxonienses as follows: "He was a most excellent linguist, exactly read
and vers'd in the Sacred Scriptures, and went beyond all of his time in humane
literature, whether in poetry or prose." In 1570 he joined the College at Douai,
and became Lecturer in Hebrew and Holy Scripture. He died at Rheims, in
October, 1582.

The translation was essentially Martin's work. The keenly controversial matter
which accompanies the text is ascribed to Bristow. The Censure and Approbation
is signed by four ecclesiastics of Rheims : Petrus Remegius, Hubertus Morus,
loannes le Besgue, and Gulielmus Balbus, The Preface criticises certain renderings
of the English Bibles, mentioning some editions by their dates.

Editio Princeps of the Roman Catholic Version of the Old Testament

IN English.

1 1 1 The Holie Bible faithfully translated into English, out of the Authentioal
Latin. Diligently conferred with the Hebrew, Greeke, and other
Editions in divers languages. With Arguments of the Bookes, and
Chapters : Annotations : Tables : and other helpes, for better under-
standing of the text : for disco verie of Corruptions in some late transla-
tions : and for clearing Controversies in Religion. By the English
College of Doway.

2 vols., thick small 4to, full calf.

Printed at Doway by Laurence Kellam, at the signe of the holie

Lambe. 1609-10. £10 lOs

* * ^ The Editio Princeps of the Roman Catholic version of the Old Testament in
English.

This version of the Old Testament was based on the same lines, and came from the
same hands, as the Rheims New Testament of 1582. The complete work is
commonly known as the " Douai-Rheims version," or briefly the '' Douai Bible."

The Preface to the Rheims New Testament speaks of the Holy Bible long since trans-
lated bj^ us into English, and the Old Testament lying by us for lacke of good meanes
to publish the whole in such sort as a worke of so great charge and importance
requireth. Twenty-seven years later the Preface to the Old Testament expressly
ascribes the long delay in its publication to one general cause, our poore estate in
banishment. After referring to those that translated it about thirtie years since
(clearly Martin and his coadjutors), the editor explains only one thing we have donne
touching the text, whereof we are especially to geve notice . . . we haue againe
conferred this English translation, and conformed it to the most perfect Latin
Edition, i.e., the authorised recension of the Vulgate published under the authority
of Clement VIII. in 1592. Cardinal Allen (1532-94) had assisted in this revision of
the Latin text.

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The First Authorised Version — The " He " Bible.

112 The Holy Bible.

Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New ; newly Translated out]
of the Originall Tongues, and with the former translations diligentl;
compared and revised, by his Maiesties special Commandement.

Woodcut titles. Thick folio, full morocco gilt, with the Arms of\
the Curzon family on sides, g. e.

London, R. Barker, 1611. £52 lOsI

*** The Editio Princeps of King James's Bible, commonly known as the '' Author-J

ised " Version, or the " He " and *' She " Bibles.
This copy has the '* He " reading in Ruth iii,, 15.

There were several issues of this book ; this is believed to be the second issue.
This " Authorised " Version of the Sacred Volume is that which is still in common i

use, and many millions of copies have been printed since its first appearance in 1611.

The First Authorised Version — The '* She " Bible.

113 The Holy Bible.

Another Copy of the First Authorised Version.

Thick folio, full inorocco gilt. London, R. Barker, 161 1. £30j

*** This copy has the '' She " reading in Ruth iii., 15.

Fine tall copy, measuring 16| by 11 inches. Blank margin of First Title repaired.

English Binding of the Early Seventeenth Century.

114 The Holy Bible, with the Genealogies. London, 1616.
The Psalmes in Metre, by Sternhold and Hopkins, 161 5.
Book of Common Prayer, 1615.

Together in i volume, thick small 4to. London, 161 5-16.

Bound by John and Abraham Bateman, the Royal Binders to Kingj
James /., contemporary English morocco, gilt back, the sides coverec
with gold tooling, ornamental corner and centre -pieces, gilt gauffred^
edges. £15 15s

Dos-A-Dos Binding.

1 1 5 The New Testament.

i2mo. London, 1626.
The Booke of Common Prayer.

i2mo. London, 1627.

Bound dos-a-dos.

Contemporary English binding of brown calf, sides
covered with a floral device in gold, gilt gauffred edges.

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116 The Holy Bible. Authorized Version (with Common Prayer and Musical
Psalms).

Very small type, woodcut title.

8vo, contemporary English calf, full 'gilt floreate back, semis of
flames on sides, with centre and corner laurel branches and initials S. B.,
gilt gauff red edges. London, 1629. £11 lis

Embroidered Binding.

11; The Third Part of the Bible:

(After some division.)

Containing five excellent Bookes : most commodious for all
Christians.

i2mo. Very beautiful example of English Embroidered Binding of
the time of Charles I., generally ascribed to the Nuns of Little Gidding.
Ground work of white satin with both covers and side decorated ivith a
floral device worked in coloured silks and with further ornamentation in
gold and silver throughout, gilt gauffred edges, silk end leaves.

London, 1632. £35

Magnificent English Needlework Binding.

1 1 8 The Holy Bible, conteynmg the Old Testament and the New.

Engraved titles. Folio.

Contemporary English silk binding with ornamental needlework
design, the front cover containing centre piece of ** the Deity,'' worked
in silks of varied colours and silver threads, surrounded by an elaborate
and raised frame, composed of silver threads; with corner medallions of
the Apostles worked in silk and silver threads. The back cover is
executed in a similar design, the centre-piece containing " the Saviour,''
but two corner medallions only, with ties, g. e. London, 1633.

(See Illustration, Plate No. I.). £225

An elaborate and beautiful Specimen of Needlework Binding.

1 19 The Holy Bible, containing the Old Testament and the New Testament,

newly translated out of the Originall Tongues.

Woodcut borders to titles. Black Letter. 2 vols., large folio, full
russia. London, Barker, 1640. £4 4s

*** A Fine Copy of the last of the folio " Black Letter " Bibles.

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Embroidered Binding.

120 The New Testament.

London^ 1640.
The Whole Booke of Psalmes: Collected into English Meter.
London^ 1640.
Together in i volume, i6mo.

A very charming specimen of English Embroidered Binding of the
first half of the seventeenth century. Groundwork of white satin ^ both
covers decorated with a large tulip and other ornamentation^ in coloured
silks, spangles, and gold and silver thread, the back decorated with a
rose and primroses, in silks and gold and silver thread. £52 lOs

•jt * * A Very Fine Example, and in unusually fresh condition.

Scotch Embroidered Binding.

121 Old Testament and the New. London, 1642.

The Psalmes of David in Meeter as they are sung in the churches of
Scotland. Edinburgh, 1643.

Together in i vol., 8vo. {title missing to Old Testament).

Scotch embroidered binding of the first half of the seventeenth cen-
tury. On both covers a circular central panel and in each corner the
device of a thistle, executed in silk over leather thongs {someivhat worn).

£7 10s

Field's Parliamentary Bible.

122 Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments, also the Psalms in

Metre (by Sternhold, Hopkins and others).

Engraved title with view of London.

Bound in 2 vols., 24mo, full red morocco gilt, gilt leaves.

London, J. Field, 1658. £2 7s 6d'

A copy of the rare so-called " spurious " edition, printed in Holland, Described in
Darlow's Catalogue (No. 522).

Lowndes says of it : ''In the same year (1658), bearing imprint London, by J. Field,
was printed in Holland one of the most correct and beautiful editions of the Bible
seldom found in good preservation." The present copy is a very fine one.

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Bibles — continued.

The Preaching Bible.

123 The Holy Bible, containing the Old Testament and the New. Newly

translated out of the Original Tongues and with the former translations
diligently compared and revised. Appointed to be read in Churches.

Double columns. Fine engraved title.

Small 4to. Very fine Copy in old English blue morocco extra, gilt
edges.

Cambridge, Printed by John Field, printer to the Universities, 1668.

£1 IGs

*** This edition is known as the " Preaching Bible " from its adaptability for pulpit
use.

The First Edition of the Old Testament in Irish.

124 Irish Bible, Leabhuir na beintiomna (The Books of the Old Testament

translated into Irish by the care and diligence of Doctor William Bedel,
late Bishop of Kilmore in Ireland, and for the publick good of that
Nation).

Printed at London, 1685.

Tiomna Nuadh ar d'Tighearna agus ar Slanaigheora Josa Grisd (The New
Testament).

London, 168 1.

Together in one volume, thick small 4to, calf. 1685-168 1. £21

* -x- * The Editio Princeps of the Old Testament in the Irish language, and the Second
Edition of the New Testament.

"The Old Testament was translated by William Bedel, or Bedell (1571-1642), the
eminent Bishop of Kilmore, who died from the results of hardships endured in the
Irish Rebellion of 1641 ; aided by Murtagh O'Ciong, or King (who had assisted
William Daniel in preparing the N.T. of 1602), and Dennis O'Sheriden, or Sheridan;
though it was not printed till more than forty years after the death of the principal
translator. The translation was made in the first instance from the English Bible,
the marginal readings of which are sometimes preferred to the textual readings ; but
it appears to have been to some extent compared with other versions nnd — imme-
diately before publication — revised by A, Sail, Narcissus Marsh, Provost of Trinity
College, Dublin, and subsequently Archbishop of Armagh, and other scholars.

''This edition (consisting of about 500 copies), like the New Testament of 1681, with
which it is uniform, was printed with the Irish type presented by the Hon. R. Boyle,
and chiefly at his expense.

" The type was modelled on that which had been cast for the Jesuits, and which was
used by them in printing Irish Books at Louvain and Antwerp from 1608 to 1728, for
circulation among Roman Catholics in Ireland. Boyle's type continued in use down
to so late as 1820, and the matrices still exist, in the possession of Messrs, Stephen-
son, Blake and Co. and Sir Charles Reed and Sons, the type-founders,"

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The " Vinegar " Bible. $■

A Magnificent Copy Printed Entirely on Vellum. -V

125 The Holy Bible Containing the Old Testament and the New, newly trans-
lated out of the Original Tongues and with the former translations dili-
gently compared and revised.

Frontispieces, Ninnerotis Vignette Engravings and Initial Letters
by Vander Gucht & Du Bosc. Proof Impressions.

Printed Entirely on Vellum (646 leaves) ruled with red lines.

2 vols. Thick large folio in contemporary binding of blue velvet,
the Crest of the Original Noble Owner the Earl of Chandos engraved
on silvered plates and mounted on both sides of eacJi. volume.

Oxford, John Baskett, 17 17. £420

*** A MAGNIFICENT COPY— one of four known copies printed entirely upon

vellum. (The red lines from title of Vol. I. have set off a little on to Frontispiece
as invariably happens.) The other three copies are respectively in the British
Museum, Bodleian Library, and the third formerly in Blenheim Palace. This latter
copy was sold at the Sunderland Sale in 1818, and the Catalogue stated that " it
is probably the only copy on vellum likely to occur for sale."

This edition is called *' The Vinegar Bible " from an error in the running title at
Luke, Chapter xx., where it reads, " The Parable of the Vinegar," instead of " The
Parable of the Vineyard." It is also styled, punning on the publisher's name,
''■ A Basket-ful of Errors " on account of other curious literal errors.

126 The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments; newly trans-
lated out of the Original Tongues, and with the former Translations
diligently compared and revised.

2 vols., i2mo, elaborate contemporary Scotch binding of morocco, ^
sides completely covered with gold tooling. fl

Edinburgh, Printed by James Watson, 17 19. £6 6s

27 The Holy Bible, Containing the Old Testament and the New. With the
Psalms.

Engraved title.

Thick 8vo. Scotch binding of the first half of the eighteenth cen-
tury, black morocco, gilt back, the sides gilt tooled, with centre panel,
corner fleurons of leaves, roses, and other ornamentations , gilt edges.

Edinburgh, 1722. £4 4s

Plate I.

Magnificent English XVIlth Century Needlework Binding.
(Holv Bible). London, 1633.
" See Item No. 118.

Plate II,

From the Library of King James I. op England.
(Cope. Godly Meditacion upon XX Select Psalmes).
London, 1547.
See Item No. 41 '3 a.

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128 The Old and New Testament (but commencing with Jeremiah, and with

title to New Testament only).

Thick 8vo. A fine s-pecimen of English Early Eighteenth Century
binding by a successor of Mearne^ sides completely covered with delicate
gold tooliftg, panel on both sides of a scroll ribbon device formed by
double gold lines and gold dots with rosette ornamentations y inside of
panel adorned with circles and semi-circles and floral ornaments with
stars and dots, floral corner pieces , gold curves, etc., gilt back^ gilt
edges. Londott, 1734. £10 lOs

129 The Holy Bible, Containing the Old Testament and the New.

Thick Svo. Contemporary English binding^ crimson morocco^ sides
decorated with a cottage pattern in the delicate English gold tooling of
the period, consisting of curves, circles, floral devices, stars, dots^ etc.,
gilt edges. London, 1741. £16 16s

130 The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments; newly trans-

lated out of the Original Tongues, and with the former translations dili-
gently compared and revised.

i2mo. Contemporary Scotch binding, blue morocco, sides covered
with gold tooling, in centre of both covers a rose-window design in gold ^
with floral sprays, circles, and semi-circles, dots, etc., gilt edges.

Edinburgh, 1743. £1 lOs

131 The Holy Bible. Translated from the Latin Vulgat: diligently compared

with the Hebrew, Greek, and other Editions in divers languages. And
first published by The English College at Doway, Anno 1609.

Newly revised and corrected, according to the Clementin Edition
of the Scriptures.

With Annotations for clearing up the principal Difficulties of Holy
Writ.

4 vols., small Svo. Fine Copy in full calf.

Printed in the Year 1750. 16s

* * * The Roman Catholic version of the Bible as published at Doway.

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The " Immaculate " Edition.

132 The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments; translated out

of the Original Tongues; and with the former Translations diligently
compared and revised.

2 vols., thick i2mo. Fine Copy in full blue morocco gilt, inside
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145 BONATUS.

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158 BOYLE (Chas., third Earl of Orrery). As You Find it. A Comedy. As
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159 BOYLE (John, Duke of Orrery). Verses, by a young Nobleman, on the

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162 BRAITHWAITE (R). Drunken Barnaby's Four Journeys to the North

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164 BROOKE (Henry). The Fool of Quality; or, the History of Henry Earl

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165 BROWN (Alexander). Ars Piotoria; or, an Academy treating of Draw-

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166 BROWNE (Sir Thomas). Certain Miscellany Tracts. Written by Thomas

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167 Christian Morals, pubhshed from the Original and Correct Manu-
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168 Pseudodoxia Epidemica; or, Enquiries into very many received

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1/2 BUCK (Geo.), The History of the Life and Reigne of Richard the Third.

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174 BUCKINGHAM (Geo. Villiers, second Duke of). A Ballad.

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175 BULWER (J.). Chirologia: or the Naturall Language of the Hand. Com-

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i;6 BUNYAN (John). Dirt wip't off: or, a Manifest Discovery of the Gross
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181 The Resurrection of the Dead, and Eternall Judgement;

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1 82 BURKE (Edmund). Depont (M.). Answer to the Reflections of the Right

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183 BURNET (Gilbert, Bishop). History of his Own Time.

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Burnet (Gilbert, Bishop) — continued.

185 Some Passages in the Life and Death of the Right Honourable

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186 BURNET (T.). De Fide et Officiis Christianorum Liber.

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187 De Statu Mortuorum et Resurgentium Liber. Accesserunt Epis-

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188 BURNEY (Fanny, Mme. D'Arblay). Brief Reflections relative to the

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189 [BURNS (Robert).] Poetry; Original and Selected.

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190 PoemSy chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, including all the Poems

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[Burns (Robert)] — continued.

igi The Works of Robert Burns, with an Account of his Life, and a

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192 BURTON (Robert). The Anatomy of Melancholy.

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193 The Anatomy of Melancholy.

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194 The Anatomy of Melancholy.

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195 BURTON (William). A Commentary on Antoninus, his Itinerary or Jour-

nies of the Romane Empire, so far as it concerneth Britain wherein the
first foundation of our Cities, Lawes and Government according to the
Roman Policy are clearly discovered.

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196 BUSY-BODY (The); or. Successful Spy: being the Entertaining History

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197 BUTLER (Joseph, LL.D.). The Analogy of Religion, Natural and

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198 BUTLER (Samuel). Hudibras, in three parts, written in the Time of the

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200 The Loyal Satyrist; or, Hudibras in Prose. Written by an un-
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, published.

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201 BYSSHE (Edward). The Art of English Poetry. Containing L Rules

for making Verses. H. A Collection of the most Natural Agreeable and
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of Persons and Things, that are to be found in the best English Poets.
HL A Dictionary of Rhymes.

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202 C/ESAR. The Eyght Bookes of Gaius Julius Caesar.

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Caesar — continued.

204 Edmundess (Clement, Remembrancer of the Cittie of London).

Observations upon Caesar's Commentaries.

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205 CALVIN (John). Sermons of Master John Calvin, upon the Booke of

Job.

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206 CAMBRIDGE POEMS. Epioedium Cantabrigiense (on the Marriage of

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207 CAMDEN (William). Britannia. Sive Florentissimorum Regnorum,

Angliae, Scotiae, Hiberniae, et Insularum adiacentium ex intima anti-
quitate Chorographica descriptio.

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208 Britain; or, A Chorographicall description of the most flourish-
ing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland, and the Hands adioyn-
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Camden (William) — continued.

209 Remains concerning Britaine; but especially England, and the

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210 Remaines concerning Britain. Another Edition.

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211 [CAPGRAVE (John).] Nova Legenda Angliae.

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A Very Fine Tall and Clean Copy of the First Edition of this famous
Book, and in unusually perfect state, except that a portion of the two
large woodcuts at beginning and end is in facsimile.

Folio, bound by Bedford in full levant morocco, gold decoration
on sides, gilt back, g. e.

{Colophon) Explicit (Noua legeda anglie), Impressa lodonias : i
domo Winadi de Worde : comoratis ad signu solis : in vico nucupato
(the fletestrete). Anno dni MCCCCCXVI. xxvij. die Februarij (15 16).

£85

* * * This book on the Lives of British Saints is one of the most meritorious and use-
ful books printed by Wynkyn de Worde, and is ahnost always found defective of the
woodcut leaves which appear in this copy. It includes the Life of St. Thomas a
Becket, which is suppressed from many copies.

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The Book which Shakespeare Placed in Hamlet's Hands.

215 CARDANUS (H). Cardanus Comforte.

Translated into Englishe and published by Commaundement of the
Right Honourable the Earle of Oxen ford.
Woodcut border on title.
Small 4to, nissia.
Imprinted at London, 1573. £20

Translated by Thomas Bedingfeld, and contains preliminary Letter and Verses by
liiomas Churchyard.

An extraordinary rare and highly important Shakespearean volume. It was, says
Douce in his '' Illustrations " of Hamlet, *' A book which Shakespeare had certainly
read." And Hunter says that " it seems to be the book which Shakespeare placed
in the hands of Hamlet." Hunter's account of it is so important that it is here
transcribed in full : —

*' Having shewn that the Poet's original intention was that Hamlet should give utter-
ance to the sentiments in this celebrated soliloquy immediately on having perused
a certain book, it becomes a point of reasonable curiosity to inquire whether Shake-
speare had more particularly in his mind any one book, and, if so, what book it
was. The passage would lose something of its effect if we supposed that the whole
was merely artificial, that there was no one book thought of, but the mind was
thrown upon a confused heap of writers of all ages who may have touched upon these
awful topics. This would lead to the conclusion that there was some one book more
particularly in his mind, and it may I think be determined what particular book
it was. Douce has noticed the resemblance between the expression

" ' To die, to sleep,
No more ? '
and the following passage : ' In the Holy Scripture, death is not accounted other-
wise than sleep, and to die is said to sleep.' (' Illustrations of Shakespeare,' vol. ii.,
p. 238.) This passage occurs in a book entitled ' Cardanus' Comforte,' and this
seems to be the book which Shakespeare placed in the hands of Hamlet.' " — Lee's
Shakespeareana.

216 CAREW (Richard). The Survey of Cornwall and An Epistle concerning

the Excellencies of the English Tongue. Now first published from the
Manuscript. With The Life of the Author by H C , Esq.

4to, calf. London, 1723. 18s

21; CARTER (Richard). The Sohismatick Stigmatized. Wherein all Make-
bates are branded : whether they are Eves-dropping-newes-carriers,
Murmurers, Complainers, Railers, Revilers, etc., with all the Rabble of
Brain-sicks, who are enemies to Old England's Peace.

Small 4to, 20 pp. 'New boards. London, 1641. 18s

218 CARTWRIGHT (Thomas). An Answere to Master Cartwright his letter
for ioyning with the English Churches : whereunto the true copie of his
sayde letter is annexed.

Small 4to. New boards. London, circa 1590. 18s

*** Cartwright (1535-1603) has been described as ''the head and most learned of
that sect of dissenters then called Puritans." The above work is an answer to an
answer written nnto Master Harrison at Middleborough by Cartwright.

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219 CARTWRIGHT (Wm.). Comedies, Tragi-Comedies, with other Poems,
by WilHam Cartwright.

The Ayres and Songs set by Mr. Henry Lawes, Servant to His late
Majesty in His Pubhc and Private Musick.

London, Printed for Humphrey Mosely, and are to be sold at his
Shop, at the Sign of the Prince' s Arms in St. Paul's Church-yard. 165 1.

First Edition, 8vo, with fi7ie impression of the portrait of Cart-
wright by Lombart.

Thick small 8vo, original calf, joint repaired. £15 15s

Two letters on title-page and a few marginal notes touched by the binder.
* * * This copy contains the cancelled leaf of verses by Henry Davison and Richard
Watkins, and also the leaves containing the substituted Poems hy the same authors.

Mr. Halliwell-Phillips only possessed an imperfect copy. The volume is referred to in
Shakespeare's *' Centurie of Prayse " on account of the Shakespeare allusions in the
Commendatory verses, namely: —

*' To the Memory of Mr. William Cartwright.

'' How had we lost both Mint, and Cojn too, were
That salvage love still fashionable here.
The sacrifice upon the Funerall Wood
All, the deceas'd had er held deer and good !
We would bring all our speed, to ransome thine
With Don's rich Gold, and Johnson's silver mine;
Then to the pile add all that Fletcher writ,
Stamp'd by the Character a currant Wit :
Suckling's Ore, with Sherley's small mony, hj
Hey wood's Old Iron, and Shakespear's Alchemy."

William Bell.
'^ To the deceased Author of these Poems.

"For thou to Nature had'st joyn'd Art and skill.
In Thee Ben Johnson still held Shakespear's Quill :
A Quill, rul'd by sharp judgment, and such Laws,
As a well studied Mind, and Reason draws."

Jasper Mayne.

'' William Cartwright not only wrote some of the best poems and plays of his time, and
preached some of the best sermons, but as a reader of metaphysics in his University,
he earned especial praise. King Charles wore black on the day of his funeral, and
fifty wits and poets of the time supplied their tributary verses to the volumes, first
published in 1651, of Comedies, Tragi-Comedies, with other Poems, by Mr. William
Cartwright, late Student of Christ Church in Oxford, and Proctor of the University.
The Airs and Songs set by Mr. Henry Lawes."

" There is in this book a touching portrait of young Cartwright, evidently a true
likeness, with two rows of books over his head, and his elbow upon the open volume
of Aristotle's Metaphysics. . . . He rests on his hand a young head, in which
the full underlip and downy beard are harmonized to a face made spiritual by in-
tensity of thought. Cartwright died, in his thirty-second year, of a camp |ever
that killed manj^ in Oxford." — Henry Morley.

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220 CASA (J). The Arts of Grandeur and Submission; or, a Discourse con-

cerning the behaviour of Great Men towards their Inferiours.

Written in Latin by Joannes Casa, Archbishop of Benevento, and
rendered into Enghsh by Henry Stubbe.

i2mo, new boards. London, 1665. 10s 6d

* * * Foot of title cut.

221 CASIMIRE, The Odes of Casimire, translated by G. Hils. With Intro-

ductory Poem and engraved title.

i2mo, old calf (re backed). Printed for Humphrey Moseley at the
Princes Armes in Pauls Churchyard, 1646. £2 10s

* * * Some leaves cut close in margin.

222 CASTIGLIONE (Count Baldessar). The Courtyer, divided into foure

bookes. Very necessary and profitable for yonge Gentilmen and Gentil-
women abiding in Court, Palaice, or Place, done into Englyshe by
Thomas Hoby.

The First Edition in English.

Black Letter, small 4to, full calf. London, 1561. £9 9s

* * * This copy does not contain the supplementary leaf containing the Letter to Sir
J. Cheeke.

223 The Courtier. Another Edition.

8vo, original calf.

London, Printed for A. Bettesivorth, etc., 1724. lOs 6d

224 CATHOLICS. An Unpublished Manuscript of the Early XVI. Century,

on Catholics (especially Jesuits), with references to Garnett and his
associates, the Gunpowder Plot, etc., in the form of a Dialogue between
a Knight and a Doctor. Very clearly written on 120 pp.

4to, original vellum binding. Circa 1606. £4 4s

225 CENTLIVRE (Mrs.). Love's Contrivance; or, Le Medecin malgre Lui.

A Comedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre Royal in Drury-Lane.
First Edition. Small 4to, new boards. 1703. £2 2s

226 Works of the celebrated Mrs. Centlivre, with a new Account of

her Life.

First Collected Edition. Portrait. 3 vols., i2mo, half calf.

London, 176 1. £3 3s

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22; CERVANTES (Miguel). The Life and Exploits of the ingenious Gentle-
man, Don Quixote de la Mancha. Translated from the Original Spanish,
by Charles Jarvis.

First Issue of this translation, with fine bnpressions of the 68 large
plates by Vander Gucht after Vanderbach.

2 vols., roy. 4to, original calf, rebacked.

London^ /. and R. Tonson, 1742. £4 15s

228 A Story of Two Damsels, translated from the Spanish by Thomas

Shelton.

i2mo, calf gilt, r. e. Printed in tJie Year 1742. 16s

229 Two Humorous Novels, viz. I. A Diverting Dialogue between

Scipio and Bergansa, two Dogs belonging to the Hospital of the Resur-
rection, in the City of Valladolid ; giving an Account of their Lives and
various Adventures, etc. IL The Comical History of Rinconete and
Cortadillo. Now first translated from the Spanish Original.

i2mo, full calf gilt, red edges, by Riviere.

London, 1741. 10s 6d

Title slightly defective.

230 CHALKHILL (John). Thealma and Clearchus.

A Pastoral History, in smooth and easie Verse, written long since,
by John Chalkhill, Esq., an acquaintant and friend of Edmund Spencer.

Fine Copy of the FIRST EDITION. 8vo, full morocco gilt, g. e.

London, Printed for Benj. Tooke, at the Sltip in S. Paul's Church-
Yard, 1683. £26 10s

* # * '< The poem, which possesses considerable merit, was edited by Izaak Walton, whose
preface is dated 7 May, 1678, thongh the work was not published till five years later,
when the editor was ninety years old. Walton, who had known the writer, says of
him : ' And I have also this truth to say of the author, that he was in his time a
man generally known and as well belov'd ; for he was humble and obliging in his
behaviour, a gentleman, a scholar, very innocent and prudent ; and indeed his whole
life was useful, quiet, and virtuous.' In the ' Compleat Angler,' published thirty
years before, there occur two songs — ' O, the sweet contentment,' and ' O, the gallant
fisher's life ' — signed ' lo Chalkhill.' So meagre were the facts known of the author
of '■ Thealma and Clearchus ' until a comparatively recent period that the Rev. Samuel
W. Singer, in the introduction to a reprint of the poem issued from the Chiswick
Press in 1820, advanced from the theory, afterwards adopted by a writer in the
' Retrospective Review,' that Walton was its author as well as its editor, and that
Chalkhill was altogether ' a fictitious personage.' But Mr. F. Somner Merry weather,
in two letters in the ' Gentleman's Magazine ' for 1860, has shown from the Middle-
sex county records that towards the close of Queen Elizabeth's reign Ivon or Ion
Chalkhill, Gent., was one of the coroners for that county, and that he subscribed
his name ' Ion ' and sometimes ' lo Chalkhill,' just as it is subscribed to the songs
in Walton's ' Angler.' It is conjectured, therefore, that the coroner may have been
identical with the poet. Moreover it is worthy of note that Walton married Ann
Ken, a sister of Bishop Ken and daughter of Thomas Ken, an attorney, by his first
wife. This Thomas Ken married a second wife, Martha Chalkhill, the second daugh-
ter of John Chalkhill, of Kingsbury, in Middlesex, and of Martha, his wife, daughter
of Thomas Brown, great-aunt to John Brown, who was clerk of the parliament." —
D.N.B.

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231 CHAMBERS (Sabin). The Garden of Our B. Lady; or, A devout manner,

how to serve her in her Rosary.

i2ino, origiftal calf. 16 19. 15s

CHAP BOOKS.

232 Artridge and Flamsted's New and Well Experienced Fortune Book.

DeKvered to the world from the Astrologer's Office in Greenwich-
Park, etc.

To which IS added The WHIMSICAL LADY.

24 pp., i2mo, newly bound in half calf, uncut, t. e. g.

Printed and Sold in Aldermary Church Yard, London. C . 1750.

£1 15s

233 The Black Analysis; or, Sin Described, in Nine Canto's, Thro' all its

Fearful Chinax, in the Human Soul. With 8 curious cuts.

24 pp., 8vo, calf. London, N.D. 9s

234 Doctor Merryman; or. Nothing but Mirth, Being a Poesy of Pleasant

Poems, and Witty Jests.

24 pp., i2mo, nezvly bound in half calf, uncut, t. e. g.

Printed and Sold in Aldermary Church Yard, London. C . 1750.

£1 10s

235 The Friar and Boy; or, The Young Piper's Pleasant Pastime; Containing,

His Witty Pranks, in Relation to his Step-Mother, Whom he fitted for
her unkind Treatment. Both Parts in one volume.

Together 48 pp., i2mo, newly bound in half calf, uncut, t. e. g.

Printed and Sold in Aldermary Church Yard, London. C . 1750.

£1 10s

236 The Famous History of the Seven Wise Masters of Rome; Containing,

Many Excellent and Delightful Examples, with their Explanations, etc.

24 pp., i2mo, newly bound in half calf, uncut, t. e. g.

Printed and Sold in Aldermary Church Yard, Bow Lane, London.
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237 The Famous History of the Seven Wise Mistresses of Rome; Wherein the

Treachery of Evil Ministers is discovered, Innocency cleared, and the
Wisdom of the Seven Wise Mistresses displayed.

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Printed and Sold in Aldermary Church Yard, Bow Lane, London.
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Chap Books — continued.

238 The Famous History of Tom Thumb. Wherein is declared, His Marvel-

lous Acts of Manhood, Full of Wonder and Merriment. The Three
Parts in one volume.

72 pp., i2mo, newly bound in half calf, zmcut, t. e. g.

Printed and Sold in Aldermary Church Yard, London. C . 1750.

£2 2s

239 The Famous History of the Unfortunate Lovers Hero and Leander; Who

Ended their Lives in the Sea for each other.

24 pp., i2mo, newly bound in half calf, uncut ^ t. e. g.

Printed and Sold in Aldermary Church Yard, Boiu Lane, London.
C. 1750. 18s

240 The Famous History of the Valiant London 'Prentice.

24 pp., i2mo, newly bound in half calf, uncut ^ t. e. g.

Printed in Aldermary Church Yard, London. C. 1750. £1 lOs

241' The Golden Cabinet; or. The Compleat Fortune-Teller, etc.
24 pp., i2mo, newly bound in half calf, uncut, t. e. g.
Printed and Sold in Aldermary Church Yard, London. C . 1750

£1 10s

242 A Groatsworth of Wit for a Penny; or, The Interpretation of Dreams.

24 pp., i2mo, newly bound in half calf, uncut, t. e. g.
Printed in Aldermary Church Yard, Boiv Lane, London. C . 1750.

18s

243 The History of Four Kings, Their Queens and Daughters. Kings of Can-

terbury, Colchester, Cornwall and Cumberland. Being the Merry Tales
of Tom Hodge and his School- fellows.

24 pp., i2mo, newly bound in half calf, uncut, t. e. g.

Printed and Sold in Aldermary Church-Yard. C . 1750. £1 lOs

244 The History of Guy, Earl of Warwick.

24 pp.. i2mo, newly bound in half calf, uncut, t. e. g.

Printed and Sold in Aldermary Church Yard, London. C . 1750.

£1 16s

245 The History of Hector, Prince of Troy; or the Three Destructions of Troy,

etc.

24 pp., i2mo, newly bound in half calf, uncut, t. e. g.

Printed and Sold in Aldermary Church Yard, London. C . 1750. £1

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Chap Books — continued.

246 The History of Jack and the Giants. Both Parts in one volume.

24 pp., i2mo, neivly bound in half calf , uncut ^ t. e. g.

Printed and Sold in Aldermary Church Yard, London. C . 1750.

£1 10s

247 The History of Jack of Newbury, called, The Clothier of England.

24 pp., i2mo, newly bound in half calf, uncut, t. e. g.

Printed and Sold in Aldermary Church Yard, London. C . 1750.

£2 2s

248 The History of Jack Horner. Containing The Witty Pranks, he play'd,

From his Youth to his Riper Years, Being Pleasant for Winter Evenings.

24 pp., i2mo, newly bound in half calf, uncut, t. e. g.

Printed and Sold in Aldermary Cliurch Yard, Boiv Lane, London.
C. 1750. £1

249 The History of Joseph and his Brethren; With Jacob's Journey into Egypt,

and his Death and Funeral. Illustrated with 12 cuts.

24 pp., i2mo, newly bound in half calf, uncut, t. e. g.

Printed and Sold in Aldermary Church Yard, Boiv Lane^ London.
C. 1750. £1 Is

250 The History of the King and the Cobler. Both Parts in one volume.

24 pp., i2mo, newly bound in half calf, uncut, t. e. g.
Printed and Sold in Aldermary ChurcJi Yard, London. C. 1750.

£1 15s

251 The History of Lawrence Lazy.

24 pp., i2mo, newly bound in half calf, uncut, t. e. g.

Printed and Sold in Aldermary Church Yard, London. C . 1750. £1

252 The History of Mother Shipton.

24 pp., i2mo, newly bound in half calf, uncut, t. e. g.

Printed and Sold in Aldermary ChurcJi Yard, London. C . 1750.

£1 5s

253 The History of the Noble Marquis of Salus and Patient Grissel.

24 pp., i2mo, newly bound in half calf, uncut, t. e. g.

Printed and Sold in Aldermary Cliurch Yard, London. C . 1750.

£1 Is

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Chap Books — continued.

254 The History of Sir Richard Whittington, Thrice Lord Mayor of London.

24 pp., i2mo, neiuly bound in half calf, uncut , t. e. g.
Printed and Sold in Aldermary Church Yard, Bow Lane. C. 1750.

£1 10s

255 The History of Thomas Hiokathrift. Both Parts in one volume.

24 pp., i2mo, newly bound in half calf, uncut, t. e. g.

Printed in Aldermary Church Yard, London. C. 1750. £1 lOs

256 The History of Thomas of Reading and other Worthy Clothiers of Eng-

land.

24 pp., i2mo, newly bound in half calf, uncut, t. e. g.
Printed and Sold in Aldermary Church Yard, Bow Lane. C . 1750.

£2 2s

257 The History of Tom Long the Carrier.

24 pp., i2mo, newly bound in half calf, uncut, t. e. g.
Printed and Sold in Aldermary Church Yard, Bow Lane. C. 1750.

£1 5$

258 The History of Valentine and Orson,

24 pp., i2mo, newly bound in half calf, uncut, t. e. g.

Printed and Sold in Aldermary Church Yard, Bow Lane, London.
C. 1750. 18s

259 The Juvenile Plutarch; containing accounts of the lives of Children, and

of the Infancy of Illustrious Men. With copperplate effgravings.

i2mo, original half roan. 1 80 1. 6s

260 The Life and Death of Fair Rosamond, Concubine to King Henry the

Second ; Shewing her being poisoned by Queen Eleanor.

24 pp., i2mo, newly bound in half calf, uncut, t. e. g.
Printed and Sold in Aldermary Church Yard, London. C. 1750. £1
f.

261 The Life and Death of Mrs. Jane Shore, Concubine to Edward IV.

24 pp., i2mo, neivly bound in half calf, uncut, t. e. g.

Printed and Sold in Aldermary Church Yard, Bow Lane, London.

C. 1750. £1

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Chap Books — contimied.

262 The Life and Notorious Transactions of Jane Webb. Containing an

Authentick Narrative of the various Intriques, Pranks, and Robberies
which artful Female Pickpocket, and her several Accomplices have com-
mitted, etc.

A Genuine and Authentick History of the Life and Character of Samuel
Goodere, Esq., who was executed at Bristol on Wednesday, the 15th
of April, 1 74 1, for the unnatural murder of his own Brother, Sir John
Dinely Goodere, Bart.

The Trial of Samuel Goodere, Esq.

The Wicked Life and Death of Tho. Savage, who was twice executed at

Ratcliff, for Murthering his Fellow-Servant, etc. London, 17 17.
A True and Genuine Relation of the Life and Death of Mr. Henry Smith,

who was executed March 28, 1741, at Dorchester, for the murder of
Joan Mew, etc.

Wi^/i curious cuts.

5 tracts bound in i vol., small 8vo, half calf.

London^ 1717-1741. £1 10s

263 The Life and Perambulation of a Mouse, by M. P.

Illustrated with numerous cuts.

2 vols, in I, i2mo, original -paper covers.

London, circa i7go. 10s 6d

264 The Mad Pranks of Tom Tram, Son-in-Law to Mother Winter. Together

with His Merry Jests, odd Conceits, and pleasant Tales, very delightful
to Read. The Three Parts,

72 pp., i2mo, newly bound in half calf, uncut, t. e. g.

Printed and Sold in Aldermary Church Yard, Boiv Lane, London.

£2 2s

265 Nixon's Cheshire Prophecy, At Large Pubhshed from Lady Cowper's

correct Copy in the Reign of Queen Ann. With Historical and Political
Remarks; And Several Instances wherein it has been Fulfilled. Also,
His Life.

24 pp., i2mo, newly bound in half calf, uncut, t. e. g.

Printed and Sold in Aldermary Church Yard, London. C . 1750. £1

266 The Noble and Renowned History of Guy Earl of Warwick; containing a

full and true account of his many famous and valiant actions.

Extracted from Authentick Records ; illustrated with many curious
cuts.

i2mo, original calf. London, N.D. £2 2s

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Chap Books — continued.

267 Renowned History of Valentine and Orson, the two Sons of the Emperor

of Greece. Newly corrected and amended. Curious cuts.

i2mo, full calf. Glasgozv, 1750. 10s 6d

268 The Shoemaker's Glory; or, The Princely History of the Gentle Craft.

24 pp., i2mo, 7tewly bound in half calf, uncut ^ t. e. g.

Printed and Sold in Aldermary Church Yard, Boiv Lane, London.
C . 1750. £2 2s

269 Simple Simon's Misfortunes and his Wife Margery's Cruelty. Which

Began the very next Morning after their Marriage.

24 pp., i2mo, neivly bound in half calf, uncut, t. e. g.

Printed and Sold in Aldermary Church Yard, London. C . 1750. £t

270 The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood. A Tale.

24 pp., i2mo, newly bound in half calf, uncut, t. e. g.

Printed and Sold in Aldermary Church Yard, Bow Lane, London,
C. 1750. £1

271 A True Tale of Robin Hood.

24 pp., i2mo, 7iewly bound in Jtalf calf, uncut, t. e. g.

Printed and Sold in Aldermary Church Yard, Bow Lane, London.
C. 1750. £1 10s

272 The Unfortunate Concubines: The History of Fair Rosamond, Mistress to
Henry H., and Jane Shore, Concubine to Edward IV., shewing how
they came to be so. Numerous curious wood engravings.

i2mo, original sheep. London, Circa 1720. 18&

273 Wanton Tom; or, the Merry History of Tom Stitch, the Taylor. Both

Parts in one volume.

48 pp., i2mo, newly bound in half calf, uncut, t. e. g.

Printed and Sold in Aldermary Church Yard, London. C . 1750.

£1 15s

274 The Witch of the Woodlands; or, the Cobler's New Translation.

24 pp., i2mo, neivly bound in half calf, uncut, t. e. g.

Printed and Sold in Aldermary Church Yard, Bow Lane, London.
C. 1750. £1

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Chap Books — continued.

275 The World Turn'd Upside Down; or, The Folly of Man; Exemplified in
Twelve Comical Relations. Upon Uncommon Subjects.

Illustrated with 12 curious cuts, truly adapted to each Story.

24 pp., i2mo, neivly bound in half calf, uncut, t. e. g.

Printed and Sold in Aldermary Church Yard. C. 1750. £1 lOs

276 CHAPMAN (Geo.). Bussy D'Ambois: A Tragedie: as it hath been often

presented at Paules.

A Fine Copy of this exceedingly rare play.

Small 4to, handsomely bound in full levant morocco, g. e., by
Riviere. London, Printed for William Aspley, 1608. £65

* * ^ The most popular of Chapman's plays.

277 May-Day. A witty Comedie, divers times acted at Blacke Fryers.

First Edition. Small 4to, bound in full calf extra, g. e.
London, 161 1. £12 12s

*** Charles Lamb was of opinion that of all the English dramatists '* Chapman ap-
proaches nearest to Shakespeare in the descriptive and didactic, in passages which
are less purely dramatic." " May Day " was a broadly humorous comedy full of
diverting situations. (Some leaves a little shaved.)

278 CHAPMAN (George) and SHIRLEY (James) The Tragedie of Chabot

Admirall of France; as it was presented by her Majesties Servants, at
the Private house in Drury Lane.

First Edition. Small 4to, fidl polished calf gilt, g. e.

London, 1639. £22 10s

*** This play is more evenly written than Chapman's earlier tragedies; and we may
suppose that, having been left imperfect by Chapman, it was revised and completed
by Shirley, losing much of its original roughness in the process of revision.

KING CHARLES FIRST.

279 Chaloner (Thos.). Disposal of the King's Person. A Speech made in

the House of Commons the 26th day of October 1646 (upon the Reading
of the Scotish Papers, the same day, In reply to the votes of both Houses
of Parliament of the 24th Sept. concerning the disposall of the King's
Person) spoken by Thomas Chaloner, a member of the said House.

Small 4to, 15 pp., new boards, uncut. 1646. 18s

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Charles I- — continued.

King Charles' Victories at Edge Hill and in the North.

280 A Collection of Prayers and Thanksgivings, used in His Majesties

Chappel, and in His Armies. Upon occasion of the late Victories against
the Rebells, and for the future successe of the Forces. Pubhshed by
His Majesties Command.

14 pp., small 4to, unbound. Oxford, 1643. £1 Is

281 Coronae Carolinae quadratura sive Perpetuandi Imperii Carolini ex quarto

pignore felioiter susoepto captatum Augurium.

With the curious Folding Frontispiece.

Small 4to, vellum. Oxford, L. Lichfield, 1636. £6 6s

*** This little work consists of Poems in English by W. Cartwright, Dudley Digges^
Edgar Bathurst, George Hall, and others, all of Oxford University.

282 Eikon Basilike, the Pourtraicture of His Sacred Maiestie in His Solitudes

and Sufferings.

8vo, original sheepskin. 1648. £2 lOs

283 Eikon Basilike. The Pourtraicture of His Sacred Majestic in his Sohtudes

and Sufferings.

Folding Frontispiece engraved by Marshall of the King Kneeling
in Prayer, with descriptive verse below.

8vo. Fine Copy in contemporary black morocco, g. e. 1649. £2 2s

284 The Humble Petition of the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled,

To the Kings most Excellent Majesty for a Pacification betweene His
Majesty and both Houses.

4 pp., small 4to, nezv boards. London, 1642. £1 Is

* * * An attempt to reconcile King and Parliament and prevent Civil War, asking the
King to remove the Forces from Hnll, Newcastle, Tynmouth, and Lincplnshire.

285 A Journall of the Proceedings in the ParKament holden att Westminster

in the Third and Fourth yeares of the raigne of or Soueraigne Lord
Kinge Charles. Conteyning twoe Sessions, The First beginninge the
XVHtli of March, and endinge the XXVI^h of June then next followinge
Ano. Dni : 1628. The Second begininge the XXth of January in the
same yeare and endinge the Xth of March followinge. Anno Domini
1628.

A Manuscript Journal, extending to 1,234 pages, of the Proceed-

(Continued over)

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Charles I. — continued.

ings in Parliament from day to day, clearly written in the Court Hand
of the Period, with a title-page, and a Portrait of King Charles, as
Frontispiece.

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ornament in centre^ Tudor Rose and gold lines and the letters A. D. on
either cover. £8 8s

* * * On the fly-leaf is written in a contemporary hand :

'* This is my Nephew, John Dawes's " ;

therefore the initials on cover are those of the first owner.

286 The Reign of King Charles, an History disposed into Annalls. The Second

Edition, revised, and somewhat enlarged. With A Reply to some late
Observations upon that History.

Small folio, full calf. London, 1656. lOs 6d

287 A Solemn League and Covenant, for Reformation and Defence of Rehgion,

the Honour and Happinesse of the King, and the Peace and Safety of
the three Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland.

Engraved on 8 leaves, printed on one side only. With illustrations.

Small 4to, calf. 1643. Very rare. £16 16s

* * * Bound up at the end are two Proclamations, one for supporting the King and tlie
other the Parliament, 1642-3.

Trial of King Charles I.

288 The Charge of the Commons of England, against Charls Stuart, Kmg of

England, of High Treason, and other High Crimes, exhibited to the
High Court of Justice, By John Cook Esquire, Solicitor General,
appointed by the said Court, for, and on the behalf of the People of
England.

8 pp., small 4to, unbound.

London, Printed for Kapha Harford, 1648. £5 5s

Trial of King Charles I.

289 Collections of Notes taken at the Kings Tryall, at Westminster Hall, on

Saturday last, Janua. 20, 1648, and the Charge of High-treason read
against the KING.

With the severall Speeches made by the King, the Lord President,
and the Councell which exhibited the Charge against Him. Which Notes
were taken by H. Walker, who was present at the Tryall that day.
January 20, 1648, Imprimatur THEODORE JENNINGS.

6 pp., small 4to, unbound.

London, Printed by Robert Ibbitson, 1648. £1 Is

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Charles !■ — continued.

Trial of King Charles I.

290 A Perfect Narrative of the whole Proceedings of the High Court of Jus-

tice in the Tryal of the King in Westminster Hall, on Saturday the 20,
and Monday the 22 of this instant January. With the several Speeches
of the King, Lord President, and Solicitor General. Published by
Authority to prevent false and impertinent Relations.

The three parts together. 39 pp., small 4to, unbound.

London^ Printed tor John Flayford^ 1648. £2 2s

Judges of King Charles L

291 A List of the Names of the Judges of the High Court of Justice, for Tryall

of the King. Appointed by an Act of the Commons in England in
Parliament Assembled, and a List of the Officers of the said Court, by
them Elected.

A Folio Sheet, printed on one side only.

London for R. /., 1649. ^5 5s

Execution of King Charles.

292 King Charls His Speech made upon the Scaffold at Whitehall-Gate, imme-

diately before his Execution, on Tuesday the 30 of Jan. 1648. With a
Relation of the maner of his going to Execution. Published by Special
Authority.

14 pp., small 4to, unbound.

London^ Printed by Peter Cole, 1649. £3 3s

See also under Civil War.

KING CHARLES SECOND.

Proclaiming of King Charles 2Nd.

293 A Proclamation. Although it can no way be doubted, but that his Majes-
ties Right and Title to his Crowns and Kingdoms, is and was every way
compleated by the death of his Royal Father, without the Ceremony or
Solemnity of a Proclamation, yet since Proclamations in such cases
have been always used ... we therefore . . . do . . .
heartily, joyfully and unanimously acknowledge and proclaim .
Charles the second, as being lineally, justly and lawfully next heir of
the Blood Royal of this Kingdom . . . and that . . . he is of
England and Scotland France and Ireland the most potent, mighty and
undoubted King.

Folio broadside. Printed in Black Letter on one sheet.

London, 1660. £3 3s

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Charles II. — continued.

Charles IL's Restoration.

294 Act for a Solemn Anniversary Thanksgiving, for His Majesties Restaura-

tion to the Royal Government of His Kingdoms.

Printed in Black Letter, one side of a large folio sheet.
Edinburgh, Printed by Evan Tyler , Printer to the Kings most
Excellent Majesty, 1661. £1 lOs

295 Acts and Proclamations of Charles II. Anno Regni Caroh IL Regis

Angliae, Scotiae, Franciae, & Hiberniae, Duodecimo.

An Act for the speedy Provision of Money, for Disbanding and
Paying off the Forces of this Kingdom both by Land and Sea. 1660.

An Act for Supplying and Explaining certain Defaults in An Act
Entituled, An Act for the speedy provision of Money, &c. 1660.

An Act of Free and General Pardon, Indemnity, and Oblivion. 1660.
1660.

An Act for Confirmation of Indicial Proceedings. 1660.

An Act for removing and preventing all Questions and Disputes
concerning the Assembling and Sitting of this present Parliament. 1660.

An Act for the Confirming and Restoring of Ministers. 1660.

An Act for raising Sevenscore thousand pounds, for the compleat
Disbanding of the whole Army, and paying off some part of the Navy.
1660.

An Act for the Encouraging & Increasing of Shipping and Naviga-
tion. 1660.

An Act to Prevent Frauds and Concealments of His Majesties
Customs and Subsidies.

An Act for the Regulating of the Trade of Bay-Making in the
Dutch Bay-Hall in Colchester.

A Subsidy Granted to the King of Tonnage and Poundage.

An Act for the Continuing the Excise until the Twentieth of August,
1660.

An Act for the present Nominating of Commissioners of Sewers.

An Act for the speedy disbanding of the Army, and Garrisons of
this Kingdome.

An Act for the Inabling the Souldiers of the Army Now to be dis-
banded, to Exercise Trades.

His Majesties Most Gracious Speech, together with the Lord Chan-
cellors, to the Two Houses of Parliament, on Thursday the 13 of Sep-
tember, 1660.

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London, 1660. £6 6s

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Charles li- — continued.

296 Augustissimo Et Optimo Regi Caroio Secundo, In statuam ei in medio

Mercatorum Foro positam.

4 pp., folio, new boards. London, 1684. ^^ ^^

297 Bird (John). Ostenta Carolina; or the Late Calamities of England. With

the Authors of them. The Great Happiness and Happy Government of
K. Charles IL ensuing, Miraculously Foreshown by the Finger of God
in two wonderful Diseases, the Rekets and Kings-Evil.

91 pp., small 4to, new hoards. London, 1661. 15s

298 The Confession of Edward Fitz-Harys for endeavouring to Dethrone the

King.

Broadside, small folio. London, 168 1. 6s

299 The King's Dispensing Power. Exphcated and Asserted.

Pamphlet, 8 pp., small folio, unbound. London, 168 1. 7s 6d

300 Ogilby (John). The Kings Coronation: being an Exact Account of the

Cavalcade, with a Description of the Triumphal Arches, and Speeches
prepared by the City of London for his late Majesty Charles the Second,
in his passage from the Tower to Whitehall.

18 pp., folio, unbound and uncut. London, 1685. £2 lOs

301 The Relation of His Majesties Entertainment passing through the

City of London, to His Coronation : with a Description of the Triumphal
Arches, and Solemnity.

35 pp., folio, unbound. London, 1661. £2 lOs

Against Duels.

302 A Proclamation against the Fighting of Duells.

In which it is stated that duels are becoming much too frequent,
especially among the higher classes.

" And which ought not to be, upon any provocation, we remember-
ing that the Sin of Murder is detestable before God, and . . . Scan-
dalous to Christian Religion, and contrary to Law. Any offender shall,
apart from incurring our displeasure become incapable of holding or
hoping to hold any office in our service. There is to be no intercession
and no pardon for offenders."

Broadside, printed on one side of folio sheet, with the Royal Arms
at top.

London, August 13, 1660. £3 3s

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Charles II. — continued.

Accession Pardon.

303 Proclamation concerning His Majesties gracious Pardon.

Broadside. Printed on one side of folio sheet.

London, 1660. £3 3s

Coronation Pardon.

304 Proclamation concerning His Majesties Coronation Pardon.

Printed on one side of a large folio sheet, with the Royal Arms at
top.

London .Printed by John Bill, 1661. £3 3s

Commencing: — '' The King's Most Excellent Majesty, since his return to the Exercise
of the Regall Powers of his Crown, hath passed an Act of General Pardon, Oblivion,
and Indemnity, and hath also directed Charters of Pardon according to a form pre-
scribed to issue under His Great Seal, which have been sued forth by many of his
Subjects," etc.

305 A Proclamation for In Bringing of His Majesties Hangings, Household

Stuffe, and other Furniture, &c.

Edinburgh, Printed by a Society of Stationers, 1660. £2 2s

Printed on one side of a folio sheet.

306 Proclamation for the Payment of the Subsidy and Aulnage upon all

Woollen Clothes and Draperies.

Broadside. Printed on one side of a folio sheet.

London, 1660. £2 2s

307 A Proclamation for Prevention of Disorders which may be committed by

Souldiers.

Printed in Black Letter on one side of a large folio sheet, with the
Royal Arms at top.

London, Printed by the Assigns of John Bill and Christopher
Barker, 1672. 10s 6d

Commencing: — " The King's Most Excellent Majesty having found it necessary during
the present War to raise more Souldiers, and to form them into Regiments, and
dispose of them in several Quarters until there should be occasion for their Service
against the Enemy, And being desirous that during their continuance in their
Quarters no kind of Rudeness or Misdemeanour should be committed by any of his
Souldiers to the grievance or dissatisfaction of any of His Subjects."

308 Proclamation for the preventing of Exportation of Wools, Woollen- Yarn,

etc.

Broadside. Printed on one side of a folio sheet.

London, 1660. £2 2s

Plate TIL

fLOVES

I RIDDLE

<tAPASTORALL

^ C O M iE D I Es

^ VVrittcni

^ At the time of his being

^ Kings Scholler in Weji-
^ minfier Schoolc,

LONDON,

Printed by Johfi Davffin, fot Hekrj

SeiU, and arc to be fold at theTyercs

head in Flcetftrcct over againft

S%!Djiw/?rfWfCliw«h. 1638.

Title-page (shewing the remarkable margins).

Cowley's Loves Riddle. 1638.

See Item No. 433.

Plate IV.

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Charles II. — continued.

309 A Proclamation for recalling of Commissions at Sea.

Broadside. Printed on one side of a folio sheet, with Royal Arms
at top.

London^ 15 June, 1660. £1 Is

*** Whilst the King was in exile, he issued Commissions to divers of his subjects by
sea, to proceed agamst and prosecute his enemies. His Majesty ... being hap-
pily restored with his throne is pleased to revoke all and every such commission.

Registering OF Knights.

310 A Proclamation for Registering Knights.

Printed in Black Letter on one side of a large folio sheet, with the
Royal Arms at top.

London, Printed by the Assigns of John Bill and Christopher
Barker, 1673. 15s

*** Commencing: — "Whereas we have taken notice of many and great Inconven-
iences dailj' arising from the want of an exact Roll kept in the Colledge of Arms, of
the Names and Places of Habitation of such as have received from Us the Order of
Knighthood, and of the time when they received the same, whereby some, who never
received that Order, do presume to Usurp it, to the Derogation of our Royal Au-
thority and Prerogative ; others do pretend to have received the same before We
Conferred it on .them ; And others who were Created onely Knight-Batchelours, do-
take upon them the Title of Baronets."

311 A Proclamation For Speeding the Payment of the Arrears of Seventy

thousand pounds for three months Assessments, due and payable the
First of August last past.

Broadside. Printed on one side of folio sheet, with Royal Arms at
top.

London, Sept. 26, 1660. £2 2s

* * * One of the early proclamations of Charles II, was this ordinance to raise fund&
for the King.

Against the Misappropriation of Charitable Bequests.

312 CHARITIES. By the Commissioners for Charitable Uses.

Cromwellian Proclamation. Woodcut of the Commonwealth
Arms at top.

Printed on one side of a folio leaf.

London, Printed by Thomas Newcomb, 1655. £1 lOs

*** Commencing: — "Whereas there is a special Commission directed to us, under
the Great-Seal of England, by his Highness Oliver Lord Protector of England, Scot-
land, and Ireland, and the Dominions thereto belonging, for the redressing of the
misimployment and concealing of Lands, Goods and Stocks of Money heretofore

(Continued over)

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Charities — continued.

given to Charitable uses, as well by Kings and Queens of England, as by other
well-disposed persons. Some for relief of aged impotent and poor people ; Some for
maintenance of Sick and maimed Souldiers, and Mariners, Schools of Learning,
Free-Schools, and Schollers in Universities ; Some for repair of Bridges, Ports,
Havens, Cause-waies, Churches, Sea-banks, and High-waies ; Some for education and
perferment of Orphans ; Some for or towards relief, Stock or maintenance for houses
of Correction ; Some for Marriages of poor Maids ; Some for supportation, aid, and
help of young Tradesmen, Handicrafts-men, and Persons decayed ; And others for
relief or redemption of Prisoners or Captives." Etc.

313 CHARITON. The i-oves of Chaereas and Callirrhoe.

Written originally in Greek by Chariton of Aphrodisios. Now first
translated into English.

2 vols., i2mo, newly bound in half calf gilt, gilt leaves.

London, Printed for T . Becket and P. A. De Hondt, 1764. £1 16s

314 CHARKE (Mrs. Charlotte). A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Charlotte

Charke; written by herself.
With frontispiece.
Small 8vo, original calf. London, 1755. £2 2s

315 CHARLETON (Dr. Walter). Chorea Gigantum; or, The most Famous

Antiquity of Great-Britain, vulgarly called Stone-Heng, Standing on
Salisbury Plain, Restored to the DANES.

Illustrated ivith two folding -plates.

Small 4to, boards {some headlines slightly touched).

London, Printed for Henry Herringman, 1663. £1 Is

316 CHAUCER (G.). Amorum Troili et Creseidae Libro duo priores AngHco-

Latini.

Woodcut border to title. The Latin translation in Roman type ; the
English in Black Letter.

First Edition. Small 4to. Fine Copy in the Original Vellum
Binding. Oxonice, 1635. £5 5s

♦** This version of Chaucer's *' Troilus and Cressida," was issued by Sir Francis
Kynaston. His Latin translation on opposite page td Chaucer's Original English.
It is prefaced by fifteen short poems by Oxford Scholars, including Strode and Dud-
ley Digges.

317 Works.

Black Letter, double columns, woodcuts and ornamental initials.

Folio, full morocco, blind tooled.

(Colophon) Thus endeth the workes of Geffray Chaucer, prynted
at London. The yere of our lorde, 1542. £10 lOs

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The copy wants the four preliminary leaves, and the last leaf is in facsimile.
The copy in the Huth Sale sold for £60.

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Chaucer (G.) — cojttinued.

318 The Workes of Our Ancient and learned English Poet, Geffrey

Chaucer, newly Printed. To that which was done in the former Impres-
sion, thus much is now added.

1. In the hfe of Chaucer many things inserted.

2. The whole worke by old Copies reformed.

3. Sentences and Proverbes noted.

4. The Signification of the old and obscure words prooued : also
Caracters shewing from what Tongue or Dialect they be derived.

5. The Latine and French, not Englished by Chaucer, translated.

6. The Treatise called lacke Vpland, against Friers : and Chaucers
A. B.C. called La Priere de nostre Dame.

Title within elaborate zuoodcut border^ full-page engraving of
Chaucer surrounded by genealogical charts and a large zvoodcut of
Chaucer^ s Arms.

Folio, in contemporary binding of oak boards covered with stamped
leather^ with brass corner and centre bosses {new back).

London, Printed by Adam Islip, 1602. £10 lOs

* * * This was edited by Thomas Speght with the assistance of William Thynne.
Speght has also utilised notes and corrections supplied by John Stow. The volume
is dedicated to Sir Robert Cecil.

319 Works.

Together with his Life, shewing his Countrey, Marriage, Children,
etc., and a Table wherein the Old and Obscure Words are explained.
To which is adjoyned the Story of the Siege of Thebes by John Led-
gate, Monk of Bury.

Frontispiece containing full-length portrait of Chaucer and
genealogy.

Black Letter, folio, original calf {joints repaired).

London, 1687. £5 lOs

3 19a Works. Compared with the former Editions and many valuable

MSS. by John Urry; together with a Glossary, and the Author*s Life,
and a Preface giving an Account of this Edition. Portrait.

Folio, half morocco. London, 172 1. £3 15s

320 The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer; to which are added. An Essay

upon his Language and Versification; an Introductory Discourse; and
Notes. 4 vols. 1775.

Glossary to Canterbury Tales, i vol. 1778.

Together 5 vols., 8vo, full calf gilt. London, 1775-8. £2 5s

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321 CHEMISTRY. Glasser (Christopher). The Compleat Chymist; or, a

New Treatise of Chymistry. Teaching by a short and easy method all
its most necessary Preparations. With three folding plates.

Small 8vo, original calf. London, 1677. £2 5s

322 CHESTERFIELD (Philip D. Stanhope, Earl of). Letters to his Son Philip

Stanhope, together with several other Pieces on various subjects.
Portrait. FIRST EDITION. 2 vols., 4to, original calf.
London, 1774. £6 lOs

323 Letters from Lord Chesterfield to Alderman George Faulkner,

Dr. Madden, Mr. Sexton, Mr. Derrick, and the Earl of Arran ; being a
Supplement to his Lordship's Letters (pp. 28).

First Edition. 4to, boards.

London, for John Wallis, 1777. £2 2s

This Supplement to the famous Letters of Philip, Earl of Chesterfield, is very rarely
to be found.

324 CHETWOOD (W. R.). (Twenty years Prompter to his Majesty's Com-

pany of Comedians at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane). A General
History of the StagOi from its Origin in Greece to the present time, with
the Memoirs of most of the principal Performers that have appeared on
the Enghsh and Irish Stage for these last Fifty Years.

i2mo, original calf . London, i^^Q. £1 5s

This contains valuable information not to be found elsewhere.

325 CHILDREYQ.). Britannia Baoonioa; or the Natural Rarities of England,

Scotland and Wales. Historically related, according to the Precepts of
the Lord Bacon, with observations upon them.

Small 8vo, original calf. London, 1661. 18s

326 CHINA. Hau Kiou Choaan; or, the Pleasing History; a translation from

the Chinese language; with the Argument or Story of a Chinese Play, a
Collection of Chinese Proverbs, and Fragments of Chinese Poetry.

Frontispiece. 4 vols. 1 76 1.
Miscellaneous Pieces relating to the Chinese. 2 vols. 1762.

Together 6 vols., i2mo, original calf. £2 18s

327 CHURCHILL (Charles). The Author. A Poem.

First Edition. 4to, new boards, uncut,

London, ij6i. Scarce in uncut, state. £1 Is

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Churchill (Charles) — continued.

328 Poems; containing The Rosciad; The Apology; -Night; The Pro-
phecy of Famine; An Epistle to William Hogarth ; The Ghost; The Con-
ference; The Author, etc., etc.

First Collected Edition. 2 vols., 4to, original calf.

London^ Printed for the Author by Dry den Leach, 1763-5. £1 lOs

329 CHURCHYARDE (Thomas). A Lamentable, and pitifull Description, of

the wo full warres in Flaunders, since the foure last yeares of the Em-
peror Charles the fifth his raigne.

With a briefe rehearsall of many things done since that season,
untill this present yeare, and death of Don John.

First Edition. Small 4to. Fine Copy bound by C . Lewis in full
straight -grain green morocco , gold border to sides, gilt back, g. e.

London, 1578. £46

* * * With the 3 pp. of verse at end, usually missing, also the 8 pp. of verse at com-
mencement.

330 GIBBER (Colley). Another Occasional Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr.

Pope, wherein the New Hero's Preferment to his Throne, in the Dunciad,
seems not to be Accepted. And the Author of that Poem His more right-
ful Claim to it, is asserted, with an Expostulatory Address to the

Reverend Mr. W. W n. Author of the New Preface, and Adviser in

the Curious Improvements of that Satire.

8vo, sewn, and uncut, as issued. London, 1744. iSs

j^3i GIBBER (Theophilus) to David Garrick, wiih Dissertations on Theatrical
Subjects.

Full-length -portrait of Cibber in the character of ** Antient Pistol.^*
8vo, original boards. London, 1759. £1 5s

332 The Tryal of a cause or Griminal Gonversation, between Theo-
philus Cibber, Plaintiff, and William Sloper, Defendant.

22 pp., post 8vo, unbound. London, 1739. 12s 6(1

* * * Portrait of Mrs. Cibber inserted.

333 GIGERO (M. T.). Three Bookes of Duties to Marcus his Sonne, toumed

out of Latine into English, by Nicolas Grimald (double columns, Eng-
lish and Latin).

Woodcut title. Small Svo, full morocco gilt, g. e.

London, R. Tottell, 1583. £4 4s

70 MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W.

Original Manuscript.

334 CICERO'S CATO MAJOR; or, a Discourse upon Old Age. Translated

into English and humbly addresst to The Honoured Mrs. Clayton, 1730.

The Original Manuscript, beautifully written.

8vo, full red morocco gilt^ g. e. £4 4s

Translated by W. Freind, the nephew of John Freind, Dean of Canterbury, in 1730,
when only 15 years of age. 114 pp., with 13 pp. notes at end.

THE CIVIL WAR, COMMONWEALTH AND CROMWELL.

Cromwell's Act for Renouncing Allegiance to the Royal Family.

335 An Act for Renouncing and Disanulling the Pretended Title of Charls

Stuart, &c. At the Parliament begun at Westminster the 17th Day of
September, Anno Domini 1656.

4 pp., small folio, with the Croutwellian Arms on title ^ unbound.

London^ Printed by Henry Hills and John Field, 1657. £5 5s

*** Upon the Restoration of Charles II., the House of Commons condemned this and
four other of the Cromwellian Acts to be burnt as "treasonable writings." Three
of them were burnt at Westminster and two at the Exchange. Pepys, beholding
the latter sight from a balcony, was led to moralise on the mutability of human
opinion.

336 An Act for the Security of His Highness the Lord Protector his Person,.

and continuance of the Nation in Peace and Safety. At the Parlia-
ment begun at Westminster the 17th day of Sept. 1656.

Folio, boards. London, 1657. £5 5s

337 Acts. A Coll-ection of all the publicke Orders, Ordinances and Declara-

tions of both Houses of Parliament from the Ninth of March 1642, untill
December 1646. Together with severall of his Majesties Proclamations
and other Papers printed at Oxford.

Frontispiece of Parliament in Session.

Small folio, old calf. London, 1646. £3 3s

*** Includes: — An Order for regulating Printing, 164?; Order for advancement of
the Plantations in New England, 1642 ; An Order for burning the Book for tolerating
Sports on the Lord's Day; Declaration concerning the miserable State of Ireland;
Ordinance for demolishing superstitious Monuments; Ordinance for a Free Trade
with all Foreigners and btrangers.

For the Better Preservation of Sunday, and for the Public Burning
OF King Charles' Declaration concerning Lawful Sports.

338 All Ordinances and Orders, For the better observation of the Lords-Day,

and the Fast.

13 pp., small 4to, unbound.

London, Printed for Ediu. Husband, 1646. £2 2s

*** "And it is further Ordained by the said Lords and Commons, that the King's

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The Civil War, Commonwealth and Cromwell — continued.

Declaration concerning observing of Wakes, and use of exercise and recreation upon
the Lord's Day, The Booke intituled, ' The King's Majesties' Declaration to His
Subjects, concerning lawfull Sports to bee used ; and all other Books and Pamphlets
that have been, or shall be, written, printed or published against the Morality of
the Fourth Commandment, or of the Lord's-Day, or to countenance the prophanation
thereof, be called in, seized and suppressed, and publicly burnt.' "

339 Bridgewater. A Brief Relation of the Taking of Bridgewater by the Par-

liament's Forces under the command of Sir Tho. Fairfax; together with
a Letter concerning the dehvering up of Pontefract Castle by Treaty to
the use of the Parliament, with all the things therein.

Small 4to, 7 pp., new boards. London^ 1645. . £1 12s

340 A Briefe Relation of the Siege at Newark, as it was delivered to the

Councel of State at Derby-house, by Lieutenant-Col. Bury, whom the
Earl of Manchester sent to Report.

Together with Articles of Agreement betwixt Prince Rupert and
Sir John Medrum.

8 pp. 1644.

An Ordinance of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, for

raising of Monies for the Maintenance of such Forces as are and shall
be raised in the County of Salop for the Service of the Parliament.

6 pp. 1644.

Together in i vol., small 4to, new boards. London^ 1644. £1 12s

341 By His Highness. A Proclamation for relief of Godly Ministers against

suits and molestations by Persons sequestred, ejected, or not approved.
** Whereas divers Ministers, Lecturers, Schoolmasters and others have
been sequestred or ejected from their respective Parsonages, Rectories,
Vicarages and other Ecclesiastical Benefices or Places, for Delinquency
against the Commonwealth, or for Scandal or Insufficiency. Notwith-
standing which, divers of the said sequestred and ejected persons have
of late gotten into the Possession of such places, from which they have
• been sequestred or ejected, and others have commenced Suits for recover-
ing the Possession from such persons as have been put into such places,
or do otherwise interrupt and trouble such persons in their Possession, to
the great vexation and discouragement of the Godly Ministry within this
Nation, and to the prejudice and disappointment of the Reformation
which hath bin so long desired and endeavored.

Published by His Highness' Special Command.

Printed in black letter one side of a large folio sheet.

London^ 1655. £2 2s

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Peace between England and France.

342 By the Protector. A Proclamation of the Peace made between this Com-

monwealth, and France.

Printed and PubKshed by His Highness' Special Command.

Printed in black letter on one side of a folio sheet.

London, 1655. £1 5s

Proclamation of Banishment from London.

343 By the Protector. A Proclamation commanding all persons, who have

been of the late King's party, or his Sons, to depart out of the Cities of
London and Westminster, and late Lines of Communication, on or before
Thursday, the twelfth day of July instant.

Published by His Highness' Special Command.

Printed in black letter on two folio sheets.

Printed by Henry Hills and John Field y Printers to His Highness.

London, 1655. £1 5s

344 By the Protector. An Order and declaration of His Highness^ by the

Advice of His Council, commanding all persons who have been of the
late King's Party, or his Sons, to depart out of the Cities of London and
Westminster, and late Lines of Communication, on or before Monday,
the fifth day of November, 1655.

Printed in black letter on two folio sheets.

London, 1655. £1 5s

345 By the Protector. A Proclamation prohibiting DeKnquents to bear Office,

or to have any Voice or Vote in Election of any Publique Officer. '* That
no person or persons whatsoever that had his Estate sequestred, or his
person imprisoned for Delinquency, or did Subscribe, or Abet the Trea-
sonable Engagement in the year one thousand six hundred fourty and
seven, or had been aiding, or assisting to the late King, or any other
Enemies of the Parliament, should be capable to elect, or be elected,
to any Office, or place of Trust, or power within the Commonwealth;
or to hold, or execute any Office or Place of Trust, or Power within the
same," etc.

Printed in black letter on two folio sheets.

London, 1655. £1 lOs

346 A Catalogue and Collection of all those Ordinances, Proclamations,

Declarations, &C., which have been Printed and Published since the
Government was estabhshed in His Highness the Lord Protector; viz.,
from Dec. 16, 1653, unto Septemb. 3, 1654.

Small folio, original calf. London, 1654. £2 2s

Plate V.
THE

HISTORY

O F

SANDFORD and MERTON,
A W O R K

Intended for the Ufe of Children.

«^ SUFFER THE LITTLE CHILDREN TO COME UNTO
ME, AND FORBID THEM NOT/*

LONDON;

Printed for J. Stockdale, Oppofite BurUngion-Houic,
Piccadilly.

MDCCLXXXIII.

See Item No. 474.

Plate VL

Frontispiece from Defoe's Roxana. 1st 35dition.
See Item No. 491.

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347 Colchester. The Particulars of the Fight at Colchester, in which Letter
it appears, the Town is besieged, and five hundred of the Enemies were
taken Prisoners, and six hundred left the Town, sixty that were killed
buried in one Churchyard, besides what was slain in the other part of
the Town.

Small 4to, 8 pp., neiv boards. London, 1648. £1 15s

A Great Fight at Colchester upon Tuesday night last, being the

25 of this instant July, and the advancing of General Lucas and his
Forces to the very Guards of the Parliamenteers, with the particulars
of the Fight and the number that were killed and taken prisoners on
both sides, and the springing of a Mine to blow up part of the Leaguer.
Likewise a Letter from Colchester concerning the marching of an
Army to London. And a Message from Prince Charles to Gen. Lucas.
And a bloudy Fight at Deal Castle in Kent.

Woodcut of General Lucas on title-page.

6 pp., small 4to, 7iew boards. London, 1648. £2 2s

349 Colchester surrendred to the Lord Generall, with the manner of the Agree-

ment ; also a List of the names of the Lords, Colonells, and other Officers,
taken with Duke Hambleton at Utoxeter.

Small 4to, 6 pp., new boards. London, 1648. £1 14s

350 Colchester's Teares affecting and afflicting City and Country; dropping

from the sad face of a new Warr, threatning to bury her own Ashes that
wo full Town. By severall persons of Quality.

Small 4to, 15 pp., nezu boards. London, 1648. £1 15s

351 Civil War Tracts. A Collection of 50 Pamphlets.

Bound together in one volume, thick small 4to, original calf. £9 9s

Comprising : —

Looke about You : or, A word in Season to a Divided Nation. London, 1647.

The ARMY brought to the Barre, Legally Examined, Arraigned, Convicted and
Adjudged, etc. Printed in the yeare 1647.

The Case of the Army truly stated, together with the mischiefes and dangers that are
imminent, etc.

THE TRUE COPY of a Letter sent from the Hague in Holland to a great Nobleman
in England, concerning the raising of a great Army. London, 1648.

EIGHT PROPOSITIONS concerning the King's Majestie, and the CROWNE of ENG-
LAND, etc. Imprinted at Oxford, and Re-printed at London, 1648.
NEW PROPOSITIONS from His Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax, etc. With His

(Continued over)

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Majesties Gracious Answer and Desires. Printed at London, 1647.

A GREAT PLOT against the Parliament of England and the Army under Command
of His Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax. Imprmted at London for V.V., 1647.

The HEADS of PROPOSALS, Agreed on by his Excellency SIR THOMAS FAIRFAX,
and The Councell of the Armie. London, 1647.

THE SCOTS TREACHEROUS Designes Discovered : or, A Result to the Pamphlet,
intituled The Scots Remonstrance, etc. London, 1647.

THE COPIE of Three PETITIONS as they were presented to the Honourable, the

Commons assembled in Parliament, September 14th and 15th, 1647. London, 1647.
A DECLARATION from his Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax, and the Generall Councel

of the Army, Held at Putney, on Thursday, September 16, 1647. London, 1647.
Two Letters writ by Lieut.-Col. John Lilburne, Prerogative prisoner in the Tower of

London, to Col. Henry Martin, a Member of the House of Commons, upon the 13.

and 15. of September, 1647.

Mercurius Aulicus : Againe Communicating Intelligence from all parts, touching all
Affaires, Designes, Humours, and Conditions throughout the Kingdome. 1648.

Mercurius Elencticus : Communicating the unparallell'd Proceedings at Westminster,

etc. 1647.
Mercurius Melancholicus : or, Newes from Westminster, and other Parts. 1647.

Mercurius PRAGMATICUS : Communicating Intelligence from all Parts, touching all
Affaires, Designes, Humors, and Conditions throughout the Kingdome. 1647.

A REPRESENTATION from his Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax, and the general]
Councel of the Army, Expressing the Desires of the Army in relation to themselves
as Souldiers, in which they desire satisfaction before Disbanding. London, 1647.

AN HUMBLE REMONSTRANCE from his Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax : Concern-
ing the great sufferings and grievances of Divers, whose Cases are represented to the
PARLIAMENT. London, 1647.

Resona Recessus, The Retreat beaten backward. Being a short Answer to a subtle
Treatise, Entituled A Religious Retreat, founded to a Religious Armie. London,
1647.

THE QUEENES Majesties PROPOSITIONS to the KINGS most Excellent Majesty.
Wherein is declared, Her Majesties Gracious will and pleasure, concerning the City
of London, and His Excellencie Sir Thomas Fairfax. London, 1647.

Mercurius POPULI, or Newes declaring plain truth to the PEOPLE, November 11,
1647.

A COPY of a LETTER sent by the Agents of severall Regiments of his Excellencies
Army (that are resolved to the last drop of their bloud, to stand for the Liberties
and Freedoms of the people of England), to all the Souldiers in the said Armie. 1647.

REASONS delivered by the Right Honourable the Earle of Manchester : for Nulling
the forc'd VOTES, and against the high and visible insolencies of those that forced
the HOUSES. Printed at London, 1647.

A WORKE OF THE BEAST, or a Relation of a most unchristian Censure, executed
upon JOHN LILBURNE, the 18 of Aprill, 1638.

MORE VICTORYES obtained in Ireland, By the Right Honourable the Lord Inchi-
quine, Lord President of Munster. London, 1647.

The Copy of a LETTER to His Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax: Subscribed by the
Justices of the Peace, and Committee of Devonshire, concerning the SOULDIERS.
London, 1647.

Etc., etc.

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352 A Collection of 16 Pamphlets.

Bound together in one volume, small 4to, old calf. 1642-44. £3 lOs
Comprising : —

Scripture and Reason pleaded for Defensive Arnies : or The Whole Controversie about
Subjects taking up Arnies. London, 1643.

A COPY of the COMMISSION of ARRAY Granted from His Maiestv, to the Marquesse
of Hertford. London, 1642.

The Remonstrance of the Commons of England, to the House of Commons, assembled
in Parliament.

The Declaration of the Right Honourable HENRY Earl of Cumberland, Lord Lieuten-
ant Generall of His Maiesties Forces in York-Shire. Printed at York by Stephen
Bukley, 1642.

A Vindication of the King, with Some Observations upon the TWO HOUSES. Lon-
don, 1642.

A RE- VINDICATION of Psalme 105, lo. Touch not mine Anointed, etc. From some
false glosses, now and heretofore obtruded upon it by Anabaptists. Cambridge, 1643.

The Petition of the Most Substantiall Inhabitants of the Citie of London, and the
Liberties thereof, to the Lords and Commonns for Peace, Together with the Answer
to the same. And the Reply of the Petitioners, etc. Oxford, 1642.

A Coppy of A LETTER writ from Serjeant Major KIRLE to a friend in Windsor.

A SPEECH made by Alderman Garroway, at a Common-Hall on Tuesday, the 17. of
January. Printed in the Ye^re 1643.
' A Letter from a Scholler in Oxfordshire to his Uncle a Merchant in Broad-Street, upon
occasion of a Booke intituled, A Moderate and most proper Reply to a Declaration,
Printed and published under His Majesties Name, Decemb. 8, intended against an
Ordinance of Parliament, etc.

A Briefe Relation of the great Victory obtained by Sir Ralph Hopton neare Bodmin,
in the County of Cornwall, January 19, Anno Dom. 1642.

A COMPLAINT to the House of Commons, and Resolution taken up by the free Pro-
testant Subjects of the Cities of London and Westminster, and the Countries ad-
jacent. Oxford, 1642.

A View of a Printed Book intituled Observations upon His MAJESTIES late Answers
and Expresses. Oxford, 1642.

AN ANSWER to a Printed Book, intituled. Observations upon some of His Majesties
late Answers and Expresses. Printed by his Majesties Command at OXFORD, 1642.

The Preheminence and Pedigree of PARLIAMENT, by James Howell, Esquire. Where-
unto is added A Vindication of some Passages reflecting upon him, in a Booke called
the Popish Royall Favorite, penn'd and published by Master Prynne, etc. London,
1644.

A Moderate Apology against a Pretended CALUMNY, In Answer to some Passages in
The Preheminence of Parliament, etc. By William Prynne, of Lincolnes Inne,
Esquire. London, 1644.

* * * With the very beautiful full-length portrait of James Howell, leaning against
a tree.

353 Cromwell (Oliver). D[awbeny] (H.). Historie and Policie Re-viewed, in

the heroick Transactions of his Most Serene Highnesse, Oliver, late
Lord Protector, from his Cradle to his Tomb.

With engraved portrait of Oliver Cromwell in full armour.
Small 8vo, original calf {re-backed^. London^ 1659. 18s

•* •* * The life and acts of Cromwell are traced as parallels to the life and acts of Moses.

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354 Fisher (Payne). Marston Moor: sive de obsidione praelioque

Eboracensi Carmen ; cum quibusdam Miscellaneis.

With the fine and rare -portrait of Cromwell in armour ^ by Trevillian.

London, typis Thos. Newcomb, 1650.

Irenodia Gratulatoria, sive Illustrissimi amplissimiq; Viri Oliveri
Cromvvelli, etc. Epinicon; dedicatum Domino Praesidi Bradshawo.

With a very rare and curious equestrian portrait of Oliver Cromwell.

London, 1652.

Inauguratio Olivariana, Carmen Votivum.

Large engraving of Cro^nwelV s Arms bordered by laurels.

London, 1654.

In I vol., small 4to, full rnorocco. £3 lOs

A series of three highly laudatory Latin poetical pieces on the great Protector, by theT
Commonwealth ''Poet Laureate."

355 Gand (Ludovici de). Paralielum Olivae, nee non Olivarii Serenissimi,

Celsissimi, Potentissimique Angliae, Scotiae, Hyberniaeque, Dei Gratia
Protectoris, etc.

Fine engraved title, emblematic plate of an Olive Tree, oval portrait
of Cromwell, also an equestrian portrait, in full armour of Cromtvell, all
engraved by Faithorne.

Folio, original calf, rebacked. Londini, 1656. £6 6s

Thanksgiving for Preservation of Cromwell's Life.

356 A Declaration of His Highness the Lord Protector and the Parliament,

For a Day of Publique Thanskgiving, on Friday the twentieth of Feb-
ruary, 1656.

Pamphlet. 6 pp., small folio, boards.

London, 2nd February, 1656. £5 5s

357 Declaration of Vice-Admiral John Lawson, Commander in Chief of the

Fleet in the narrow Seas, by Authority of Parliament; with the Com-
manders of the several ships now with him in the Downes, in order to
the Removal of the Interruption that is put upon the Parliament.

I folio page, bound in small 4to vol., new boards. 1659. £1 lOs

358 Foure Strong Castles taken by the Parliaments Forces; with the copies of

severall Articles, and Letters of the Particulars thereof. Also the Agree-
ment for the sleighting of Barton Garrison in Derbishire, neere Titbury.
Small 4to, 14 pp., new boards. London, 1646. £1 12s

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359 God appearing for the Parliament, in sundry late Victories bestowed upon

their Forces, which command and call for great Praise and Thanksgiving-
both from Parliament and People

Small 4to, 21 pp., new boards. London, 1644. £1 12s

360 The Government of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland,

and the Dominions thereto belonging.

As it was publickly declared at Westminster the 16 day of Decem-
ber, 1653, in the Presence of the Lords Commissioners of the Great Seal
of England, etc. At which time and place His Highness, Oliver, Lord
Protector, took a Solemn Oath for observing the same.

Published by His Highness the Lord Protector's special Command-
ment.

Folio, original calf, rebacked. London, 1653. £2 2s

Also contains Tracts on Popish Plot, etc.

361 An Impartiall and true Relation of the Great Victory obtained through the

blessing of God, after a very sharpe dispute, by the Conjoyned Forces
of Lincoln, Nottingham, Leicester, Derby, and Rutland, under the com-
mand of Col. Edw. Rosseter.

Small 4to, 6 pp., new boards. London, 1648. £1 15s

362 The Kentish Conspiracy; or, an Order and Narration declaring the late

Plot for the Surprizing of Dover Castle, and the setting on foot of a
Commission of Array in the County of Kent.

Small 4to, 12 pp., new boards. London, 1645. £1 14s

363 Leicester. A Narration of the Siege and taking of the Town of Leicester

the last of May, 1645, by the King's Forces; together with other pro-
ceedings of the Committee, and answers to some aspersions cast upon
that Committee, and with the state of the Country.

Small 4to, 12 pp., new boards. London, 1645. £1 15s

364 A True Relation of the Carriage of a Party of Horse, at Med-

borne in the County of Leicester; as it was given in to the Committee
of Leicester, on Thursday, the gth of April, 1646. By the Minister and
Inhabitants of the said Towne.

Small 4to, 6 pp., new boards.

London, printed for R.W., 1646. £1 lOs

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The Civil War. Commonwealth and Cromwell — continued.

365 Ludlow (Edmund). Memoirs of Edmund Ludlow, Esq., Lieutenant-

General of the Horse, Commander in Chief of the Forces in Ireland, one
of the Council of State, and a Member of the Parliament which began
on November 3, 1640.

Portrait. 3 vols., 8vo, original red morocco.

Switzerland y -printed at Yivay in the Canton of Bern, 1698-9. £2 2s

366 New Propositions from His Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax, sent to the

Kings most Excellent Majesty. With His Reasons why He did not
conduct His Majesty to White-Hall, when His Excellency marched
through the City. As also, the time when His Majesty shall come, and
upon what tearmes and conditions. And the substance of the Armies
new Proposals, to be signed by King and Parliament.

Woodcut portrait on title-page of King Charles and General Fairfax.

7 pp., small 4to, unbound.

Printed at Oxford and reprinted at London, 1647. £1 12s

Prayers for Peace.

367 An Ordinance of the Lords and Commons, Exhorting all his Majesties

good subjects in the Kingdome of England, and Dominion of Wales, to
the duty of Repentance (as the onely remedy for their present Calami-
ties) with an earnest Confession, and deepe Humiliation for all particu-
lar and Nationall sins, that so at length we may obtaine a firme and
happy Peace both with God and Man. To be used privately in Families,
but especially publickly in Congregations.

7 pp., printed in Black Letter, small 4to, unbound.

London, 1642. £1 lOs

368 A Private Conference between Mr. L. Robinson and Mr. T. Scott, Occa-

sioned upon the Publishing his Maiesties LETTERS AND DECLARATION.
Pamphlet. 12 pp., small 4to, half bound.

London, Printed for hack Goulden at the Dolphin in Pauls-Church-
Yard, 1660. £1 Is

♦** T. Scott was one of the Regicides who signed Charles Ist's death warrant. He
was executed at the Restoration.

DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE ENGLISH AND DUTCH MERCHANTS.

369 A Proclamation giving notice that the remaining differences betwixt the

English and Dutch Merchants stand referred to Commissioners appointed
on both sides, who are to assemble at Amsterdam in Holland, the 20 of
Tulv, 1655. " That Commissioners or Arbitrators be nominated on
both sides, Authorized and Impowred to examine and determine the
losses and injuries which either side alledges to have sustained from the

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other since the year 161 1 unto the eighteenth day of May, 1652, old stile ;
And if the said Commissioners should not within three moneths space_
to be accounted from the said thirtieth day of May, come to an Agree-
ment concerning the differences aforesaid, that in such case the aforesaid
differences be submitted to the Judgement and Arbitration of the
Protestant Cantons of Swisserland, who should be desired to take upon
them that Arbitration," etc.

Published by His Highness special command.

Printed in Black Letter on two folio sheets. London^ 1655. £2 2s

370 A Sea-Fight; two ships taken by Captain Southwood and Captain Faulk-

ner. Prince Charles, his Letters, with a C9mmission ; and other Letters
and Papers taken at Paroes, with Provisions and Ammunition going to
relieve Pendennis Castle.

6 pp., small 4to, new boards. London, 1646. £1 15s

371 Sir John Digby's Letter to Colonel Kerr, Governour of Plymouth, per-

swading him to betray his Trust, and deliver up the Town and Forts of
Plymouth, to the King's Party.

Together with Col. Kerr's Answer.

Small 4to, 8 pp., new boards. London, 1645. ^"i 15s

372 Sir Thomas Fairfaxe entrins Bridgewater by Storming; and a List of all

the particulars and what losse was on both sides. Also, the termes

tendred by Sir Hugh Cholmley, for the surrender of Scarborough Castle.

Small 4to, 6 pp., new boards. London, 1645. £1 12s

373 Southampton. The Humble Petition of the Well-affected of the County

of Southampton in behalf of the Ministers of the Gospel and for con-
tinuance of their Maintenance. With Mr. Recorders Speech and the
Parliaments Answer thereunto.

Small 4to, 5 pp., new boards. London, 1653. £1 10s

374 A Speech made in the House of Peeres. By the right Honorable the

Earle of Monmouth, on Thursday the Thirteenth of January, 1641.
Upon the occasion of the present destractions, and of his Majesties
removall from Whitehall. With the Humble Petition of the Inhabitants
of the County of Buckingham, In the behalfe of Mr. Hampden, Knight
for the said County, and of the rest of the said members of Parliament,
accused by his Majestie of Treason. With his Majesties gratious answer
thereunto. As also the Humble Petition of divers of the Knights,
Gentlemen, Clergy, and other Inhabitants of the County of Sommerset.

Pamphlet. 8 pp., small 4to, boards.

Printed in the yeare 164^. £2 2s

* * * The attempted arrest by Charles of Hampden and the four other members really
started the Civil War.

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The Civil War, Commonwealth and Cromwell — continued.

375 Sprigge (Joshua). Anglia Rediviva; Englands Recovery; being the His-

tory of the Motions, Actions, and Successes of the Army under the Im-
mediate Conduct of His Excellency Sr. Thomas Fairfax Kt. Captain-
General of all the Parliaments Forces in England.

Folding portrait and plate of the Battle of Naseby.

First Edition; Folio, full calf. London, 16^7. £4 10s

" If you would know the facts of Fairfax. and his Independent Army, till the reduction
of Oxford and the King, you will find them in Sprigge. . . . It is worth read-
ing." . . . — Bishop Warburton.

376 A True Copie of Colonel Sr. Gamaliel Dudley's Letter to His Highnesse

Prince Rupert, from Newark, 4 March, 1644. Being an exact relation
of Sr. Marm. Langdale's March Northward; as also the great Victory
obtained by Him, over Lord Fairfax neare Pontefract.

Small 4to, 6 pp., new boards. London^ 1644. £1 12s

377 The Unexpected Life, and wished for death, of the thing cal'd Parhament

in England, or the Suger-Sopps of Parliament Turned into ranke Poy-
son.

40 pp., small 4to, unbound. Oxford, 1652. £1 5s

378 Vicars (John). A Sight of the Transactions of these latter Yeares, em-

blemized with ingraven plates which men may read without spectacles.
Emblejnatic title and curious plates.
Small 4to, half bound. {London), 1646. £1 14s

379 Violet (Thomas). To the Supreme Authority, the Parliament of the

Common-Wealth of England.

Tho. Violet humbly presents these Warrants and Letters, with a
List of Shipps lately discharged in the High Court of Admiralty, and
most humbly desires them, to take the Premises into consideration, it
being for the security and safety of the Nation, etc.

Small folio, unbound. London, 1653. £2 7s 6d

Forms the Second and Third parts of " The Answer of the Corporation of Moniers in
the Mint."

380 Yorkshire. A Declaration of the most remarkable passages and matters

of consequence betwixt his Majesty, and the Town of Kingstone upon
Hull, viz. : —

1. His Maiesties Demands to the Gentry of Yorkeshire concerning
Hull, answered by them.

2. His Maiesties Letter and Warrant to the High-Sheriffe of the
County of Yorke, concerning the proceedings of Sir John Hotham in

3. A Letter sent from the Inhabitants of the Town, of Hull to the
High Sheriffe and Gentry of the County of Yorke, now attending his
Maiesties pleasure.

4. The Votes and Resolutions agreed upor* by both Houses of Par-
liament, concerning the securing of the Kingdome of England and
Dominion of Wales.

8 pp., small 4to, unbound. I^ondon, 1642. £2 2s

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Charles I.'s Declaration to York.

381 YORK. His Majesties Deataration to the Ministers, Free-Holcfers, Far-

mers, and Substantial! Copy-Holders of the County of York. Assem-
bled by His Majesties Speciall Summons at Heworth Moor, neer the
City of York, on Friday the 3. of June, 1642.

Broadside, printed on one side of a foho sheet.

Imprinted first at York, and now re-frinted at London^ June 6,
1642. £2 2s

" General Reasons of our being here, you must understand, That when We found it
neither safe nor honorable to expose Our Person to the tumultuous and licentious
proceedings of many who did disorderly approach neer Our Court at Whitehall. We
trusted this part of our Dominions chiefly to reside in : . . . And to the end
that this present Posture wherein we meet, should not affright you, with the dis-
tempers of the times, the Example of the two Houses having made us prepare for a
Guard to us and Our Childrens Persons. We wish you to look into the Composition
and Constitution of it, and you will finde it so far from the face or fear cf War,
that it serves to secure you as well as us from it : For our choice is of the prime
Gentry, and of one Regiment of Our Trained Bands which cannot be thought to op-
presse the Countrey (being their own) nor war with themselves."

The People of York's Address to the King.

382 To the Kings Most Excellent Majesty. The humble Petition of

the Gentry, Ministers, Free-holders, and other Inhabitants of the County
of York, assembled by His Majesties speciall Summons at Heworth
Moore neere the City of Yorke, on Friday the third of lune, 1642.

Printed on one side of a folio sheet. London, 1642. £2 2s

" That this particular County, most afl[ectionate to your Majesties service, hath well
nigh for these three yeeres last past been the stage, whereon the Tragicall miseries,
which necessarily accompany warre and Armies, have beene presented and acted,
whereby the generall wealth and plenty of this County is exhausted and brought
very low. Which waight of miseries are sensibly become much more heavie, by
reason of your Majesties distance in residence, and difference in Counsels, from
your Great Councell the Parliament ; begetting great distempers and distractions
throughout the Kingdome, and have specially amongst us produced factions and
divisions, drawing into these parts great numbers of discontented persons, that may
too justly be feared do affect the publike mine, for their private advantage. All
which evils are daily fomented, and made more formidable, by your Majesties draw-
ing together (as we conceive not according to Law) many Companies of the Trained
Bands, and others both Horse and Foot, of this County ; and retaining multitudes
of Commanders and Cavaleers from other parts ; and by the daily resort of recusants,
and persons disaffected in Religion, to your Majesties Court at Yorke ; and by the
great preparation of Arms, and other warlike provisions, which begets in us feares
of Warres, to the great terrour and amazement of us, your Majesties peaceable Sub-
jects; and to the great decay of all Commerce and Industrious Courses," etc.

383 CLARK (Sam). England's Remembrancer, containing a true and Full
Narrative of those two never to be forgotten deliverances : The one from
the Spanish Invasion in Eighty Eight, The other from the Hellish
Powder Plot, November 5, 1605.

i2mo, original calf. London, 1657. 16s 6ci

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385 CLELAND (James). The Institution of a Young Noble Man.

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386 CLEVELAND (J.). Poems; Orations; Epistles; and other of his Genuine

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388 COBBLER, The Cobler turned Courtier.

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391 COFFEE. Moseley (B.). A Treatise concerning the Properties and

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392 COG AN (H.). The Scarlet Gown; or, the History of all the present Car-

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393 COLES (E.). Nolens Volens; or. You shall make Latin whether you will

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394 COLLIER (Jeremy). The Emperor Marcus Antoninus, his Conversation

with Himself, together with the Preliminary Discourse of the learned
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3Q5 A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English

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*** The Author in this Defense makes references to Shakespeare's Timon of Athens,
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397 Dennis (John). The Usefulness of the Stage, to the happiness of

Mankind, to Government, and to Religion, occasioned by a late book
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398 Yanbrugh (Sir John). A Short Vindication of the Relapse and the

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399 COMBER (T.). The Occasional Offices of Matrimony, Visitation of the

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400 CONESTAGIO (Jerome). The Historie of the Uniting of the Kingdom of

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gall, and change of that Government, the description of Portugall, their
principall Townes, Castles, Places, Rivers, &c., &c.

Small folio, old calf. London, 1600. £3 5s

Title slightly defective.

* * * Dedicated to the Earl of Southampton (Shakespeare's Patron).

401 CONGREVE (W.). The Birth of the Muse, a Poem to the Right Hon-

ourable Charles Montague, Chancellour of the Exchequer, etc.

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402 The Mourning Bride. A Tragedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre

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Congreve (William) — continued.

404 A Pindarique Ode, humbly offered to the Queen on the Victorious

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Marlborough, to which is prelix'd a Discourse on the Pindarique Ode.

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Works, with Life of the Author.

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Memoirs of the Life, Writings and Amours of William Congreve,

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CONJURING. The High German Fortune-Teller. Laying Down True
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411 CHRONICLES. Froissart (Sir John). Cronbtes of Englande, Fraunce,

Spayne, Portyngale, Scotlaude (sic), Bretayne, Flaunders, and other
places adioynynge. Translated ... by Johan Bouchier knyght
lorde Berners.

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413a COPE (Sir Anthony). A Godly Meditacion upon XX select and chosen
Psalmes.

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Bateinan, made for King James I.

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Royal Arms surrounded by the Garter, large ornafnental corner -pieces
and the intervening spaces thickly studded ivith the Tudor Rose.

London, 1547.

(See Illustration, Plate No. IL). £75

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of Horace Walpole and carries his bookplate.

Shakespearian Jest Book.

413b COPLEY (Anthony). Wits, Fits, and Fancies; or, a Generall and Serious
Collection of the Sententious Speeches, Answers, Jests, and Behaviours
of all Sortes of Estates from the Throane to the Cottage ; newly corrected
and amended with many late true and wittie accidents.

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to the title, and the leaf *' To the Curteous Reader " in facsimile; full
red levant morocco extra, gilt leaves.

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*** In Corser's "Collectanea Anglo-Poetica '' this book is described as remarkable
for its rarity, and for its being what may be styled in general terms a Shakespearian
Jest Book, as two or three of its stories serve to . illustrate some passages in his
plays. It consists of a series of jests, stories, anecdotes, and sayings, chiefly col-
lected from a Spanish work, La Floresta Spagnola, of which there is a French trans-
lation printed at Lyons in 1600. These stories and sayings, which, like Joe Miller's
jests, are generally considered as common property, are often met with in other
works, and are handed down as novelties even to our own days. One or two of these
anecdotes will therefore suffice as specimens : —

An Italian used to say that wine hath these two discommodities with it : if you put
water into it, you marre it ; and if you put none in, you marre your selfe.

The Dutchman useth to say, that eating is not any whit necessarie, other then in as
much as it procureth a man to drinke and talke.

A gentleman using to dine often with the Maior of London, on a time brought his
friend with him, saying, " My Lord, heer I am come, a bold guest of yours againe,
and have brought rny shadow with me." The Maior welcomed him and his shadow.
Within a while after he came againe to dinner to him, and brought two companions
with him : to whom the Maior said : '' Sir, you be hartily welcome : but I pray you
tel me, Do you not think it is a monstrous thing, for one body to have two
shadowes? "

That Shakespeare was acquainted with this curious book, and made use of it occa-
sionally, has been shewn by Malone and Douce. The latter, noticing the direction
in Hamlet, ''Enter the players with recorders," which were supposed to be flutes

(Continued over)

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or small pipes, quotes the following story from Copley's work, shewing that the pipe
and recorder were different : —

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Pepper, call'd him Piper : whereunto the partie excepting, and saying, Sir, you
mistake, my name is Pepper, not Piper ; hee answered : Why, w^hat difference is
there (I pray thee) between Piper in Latin, and Pepper in English : is it not all
one? No, Sir (reply'd the other), there is even as much difference betweene them,
as is betweene a Pipe and a Recorder.

Mr. Collier also has noticed some instances from the second part of Henrv IV,,
'* Love's Labour Lost," ''Twelfth Night," etc.

414 CORBET (John). The Epistle Congratulatory of Lysimachus Nicanor of

the Society of Jesu to the Covenanters in Scotland.

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415 CORBET (Dr. Richard). Poems.

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416 CORYAT (Thomas). Coryats Crudities

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Rhetia commonly called the Grison's Country, Helvetia, alias Switzer-
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persed to the nourishment of the travelling Members of this Kingdome.

Engraved title, in com-partments, by W . Hole {together with the
Printed Title), and other illustrations.

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lection of Commendatory verses went far to get for the work a character which it
did not deserve, of being only a piece of buffoonery from beginning to end, it is quite
plain that there were those who soon got to see its value. ' — D.N.B.

417 COTGRAVE (Randle). A Diotionarie of the French and English Tongues.

Elaborate woodcut border to title.

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London, Printed for Adam I slip, 16 li. £8 lOs

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old French extant, in his ''Illustrations" of Measure for Measure, Love's Labour
Lost, and King Henry IV., Parts I. and II.

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418 GOTTON (Charles). The Planters Manual.

Being Instructions for the Raising, Planting, and Cultivating all
sorts of Fruit-trees, whether Stone-fruits or Pepin-Fruits, With their
Natures and Seasons, very useful for Such as are Curious in Planting
and Grafting. Eyigraved frontispiece.

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41 Q Poems on Several Occasions.

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and another '' The Retirement. Stanzas Irreguliers. To M. Isaak Walton,"

420 Scarronnides, or, Virgile Travestie. A Mock Poem, being the

First Book of Virgil's Aeneis, in English Burlesque.

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leaf containing Brome the publisher' s device of a gun.

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422

The Genuine Works of Charles Cotton, Esq. Containing: —

I. Scarronnides, or Virgil Travestie.
IL Lucian Burlesqued, or the Scoffer Scoft.
in. The Wonders of the Peake.
IV. The Planters Manual.

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by the best Artists.

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423 [COTTON (Sir R.)] A Discourse of Foreign War. With an Account of all
the Taxations upon this Kingdom, also a List of the Confederates from
Henry I.

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424

A Short View of the Long Life and Raigne of Henry the Third,

King of England.

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[Cotton (Sir R.)] — continued. -

425 Gottoni Posthuma.

Divers Choice Pieces of that Renowned Antiquary, preserved for th(
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426 COTTON (Roger). A Godlie Forme of Householde Government: for the'

Ordering of Private Families, according to the direction of Gods word.
Whereunto is adioyned in a more particular manner, the severall duties
of the Husband towards his Wife : and the Wifes dutie towards her
Husband. The Parents dutie towards their Children : and the Child-
rens towards their Parents. The Masters dutie towards his Servants :
and also the Servants dutie towards their Masters. Gathered by R. C.

First Edition. Small 8vo, original vellum.

London, Printed by Felix Kingston, for Thomas Man, 1598.

£10 IDs

42; COUNTRY GENTLEMAN'S Vade Meoum; or, His Companion for the
Town. In Eighteen Letters, from a Gentleman in London to his Friend
in the Country, wherein he passionately disswades him against coming
to London, and Represents to him the Advantages of a Country Life, in
Opposition to the Follies and Vises of the Town, etc., etc.

First Edition. Rare. Small 8vo, full original calf.

London, 1699. £2 10s

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428 COURT MEMOIRS, Henrietta Maria (Queen). Dauncy (J.). History

of the Thrice Illustrious Princess Henrietta Maria de Bourbon, Queen
of England. Portrait.

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429 Louis XIY. Le Gendre (M.). History of the Reign of Lewis the

Great, till the General Peace concluded at Reswick in 1697. Translated
into English. Portrait.

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430 COUTEAU (James Baptiste). The Confessions of. Written by himself,

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431 COYERDALE (Myles). The Actes of the disputacion in the cowncell of

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cernyng the Christen relygion both agreed and not agreed upon : even
as they were propowned of the Emprour unto the nobles of the Empyre
to be judged delyvred and debated.

Here thow hast also the sentence, cowncell and advyse of the Em-

Seror of every degree of the npbles of the Empyre and of the Legate of
.ome concernyng these actys. And more over here lie certen prefacys of
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by the protestantys : and certen other thinges also a regestre whereof
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Philyp Melancton. Translated owt of Latyne into English by Mylys
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432 COWLEY (Abraham). The Guardian; A Comedie. Acted before Prince

Charls His Highness at Trinity-Colledg in Cambridge, upon the twelfth
of March, 1641.

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it was several times acted privately during the suppression of the theatres.

The Finest Copy in Existence.

433 Loves Riddle. A Pastorall Comaedie, written, at the time of his

being Kings Scholler in Westminster Schoole.

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434 Poemata Latina; et unus Miscellaneorum.

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Cowley (Abraham) — continued.

435 Poems. Viz., I. Miscellanies. II. The Mistress, or. Love Verses.

III. Pindarique Odes, and IV. Davideis, or, A Sacred Poem of the
Troubles of David.

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436 The Works of Mr. Abraham Cowley.

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437 Works.

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438 Works.

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panel on each side four minute figures of Bacchus holding a bunch of
grapes, gilt leaves.

London, Printed by J. M. for Henry Herringman, 1674.

(See Illustration, Plate No. IV.). £40

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439 Works.

Portrait by Faithorne.

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440 Works.

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Works, never before Printed.

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Cowley (Abraham) — continued.

441 Works. With the Cutter of Coleman Street; Six Books of Plants;

Tables; and Life of the Author.

Numerous portraits ^ of erninent -persons ^ including the Atithor^ and
plates, by Y an der Gucht, etc.

3 vols., 8vo, full blue calf gilt, gilt borders on sides, g. e.

London, 1710-11. £3 5s

442 COWLEY (Abraham) and others. A Collection of 13 Congratulatory

Poems upon the Restoration of Charles II.

Bound in i vol., small 4to, original calf. 1660. £41

A- rare collection in fine state (two leaves of Cowley's Ode have been very neatly

mended and some words facsimiled). Contains: —
Wild (R.) Iter Boreale, Attempting Something upon the Successful and Matchless

March of the Lord General George Monck from Scotland to London. 2 parts. First

Edition, 1660.
Bispham (T.) Iter Australe, a Reginensibus Oxon. First Edition. Anno 1658.
Bernard (J.) A Poem upon her Sacred Majesties Distresses and the late Happy

Restauration. First Edition. 1660.
Davenant (Sir W.) Poems upon his Sacred Majesties most happy return to his Domin-
ions. First Edition. 1660.
Mayhew (T.) Upon the Joyfull and Welcome Return of his Sacred Majestie, Charles

the Second. First Edition. 1660.
Cowley (A.) Ode upon the Blessed Restoration and Returne of his Sacred Majestie,

Charles the Second. First Edition. 1660.
Brome (Alex) A Congratulatory Poem on the Miraculous and Glorious Return of that

unparallel'd King Charles the II. First Edition. 1660.
Fuller (T.) A Panegyrick to his Majesty on his Happy Return. First Edition. 1660.
Brathwait (R.) To His Majesty upon his Happy Arrivall to our late discomposed Albion.

First Edition. 1660.
Anglia Rediviva ; a Poem on his Majesties most joyfull Reception into England. First

Edition. 1660.
Saunderson (T.) A Royall Loyall Poem. First Edition. 1660.
Britannia Rediviva. First Edition. Oxonise. 1660.
Academiae Cantabrigiensis Sostra, sive, ad Carolum II. reducem, de Regnis ipsi, Musis

per ipsum feliciter restitutis Gratulatio. First Edition. 1660.

Uncut Copy of the First Edition.

443 COWPER (William). Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. Translated into

English Blank Verse by W. Cowper.

2 vols., 4to. First Edition.

An entirely uncut copy, original boards.

London, J. Johnso7t, 1791. £6 6s

444 Original Poems on Various Occasions, by a Lady, revised by

William Cowper, Esq., of the Inner Temple.

First Edition. Post 8vo, original paper boards, uncut edges,
original label. London, 1792. £2 lOs

94 MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W.

Cowper (William) — continued.

445 Poems. London, J. Johnson, 1782.

The Task, a Poem, in Six Books, with an Epistle to Joseph Hill;
Tirocinium, or a Review of the Schools, and the History of John Gilpin.
London, J . Johnson, 1785.

Together, FIRST EDITIONS, 2 vols., 8vo, original calf, 1782-5.

£10 10s

*** With the rare Half-title to Vol. U.

446 OIney Hymns, in Three Books (by William Cowper and John

Newton).

First Edition. Thick i2mo, original calf {re backed).

London, 1779. £2 2s

447 CRABBE (George). The Village. A Poem, in two books.

First Edition. 4to, half calf neat.

London, Dodsley, 1783. £1 lOs

448 CRISPIN. The Delightful, Princely and Entertaining History of the

Gentle-Craft.

Containing many Matters of Delight, very pleasant to read, Shew-
ing what famous Men have been Shooe-Makers in Old Time; with their
Worthy Deeds and Generous Humours, also demonstrating why called
the Gentle Craft, with the Shooe-Makers Glory, being a Merry Song in
Praise of Shooe-Makers, to be Sung by them every Year on the 25th of
October, being Crispin's Birthday.

With curious woodcuts. Small 8vo, old buckrajn binding.

London, 1760. £2 2s

449 CROMERTY (George, Earl of). An Historical Account of the Conspira-

cies by the Earl of Go wry, and Robert Logan of Restalrig, against
King James VI. To which is added A Vindication of Robert IH. Taken
from Authentick Documents, yet extant among the National Records.

8vo, original calf. Edinburgh, 17 13. ' 18s

* * * Containing autograph of Samuel Wesley.

450 CROWNE (J.). The Ambitious Statesman; or, the Loyal Favourite.

First Edition. Small 4to, boards. London, 1679. £3 3s

451 Andromache, a Tragedy.

First Edition. Small 4to, boards. London, 1675. ^3 10s

MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. 95

Crowne (J.) — continued.

452 Calisto: or, The Chaste Nimph, the late Masque at Court, as it

was frequently presented there by several Persons of Great Quality, with

the Prologue and the Songs betwixt the Acts.

First Edition. Small 4to, boards. London, 1675. £3 3s

453 Darius, King of Persia, a Tragedy.

First Edition. Small 4to, boards. London, 1688. £3 3s

454 The Destruction of Jerusalem by Titus Vespasian. In two Parts.

As it is Acted at the Theatre Royal.

First Edition. Small 4to, neiu boards. London, 1677. £4 lOs

455 The English Frier: or the Town Sparks. A Comedy, as it is acted

by their Majesty's Servants.

First Edition. Small 4to, nezv boards. London, 1690. £2 lOs

456 History of Charles the Eighth of France: or, the Invasion of

Naples by the French.

First Edition. Small 4to, boards. London, 1672. £3 lOs

457 Thyestes. A Tragedy acted at the Theatre Royal.

First Edition. "^m-dXi \x.o, boards. London, i6%i. £3 3s

458 CUDWORTH (Ralph). A Treatise concerning Eternal and Immutable

Morality. With a Preface by Edward, Lord Bishop of Durham.

8vo, full tree calf gilt, g. e. London, 1731. 7s 6d

459 CUPID AND PSYCHE. The Loves of Cupid and Psyche; in Verse and

Prose, from the French of La Fontaine, to which are prefixed a Version
of the same Story, from the Latin of Apuleius. With a new life of La
Fontaine, extracted from a great variety of Authors, by John Lockman.
With 2 plates by Bartolozzi inserted.

8vo, full calf gilt, g. e. London, 1744. £2 18s

460 DACRES (Edward). Machivel's Discourses upon the First Decade of T.

Livius, Translated out of the Italian. To which is added His Prince.
With some Marginal Animadversions Noting and Taxing his Errors,

Thick i2mo, original calf.

London, Printed for Tho. Bring, 1663. 18s

96 MAGGS BROS.. 34 & 35, Conduit Street. London, VV.

461 DAN BY (Earl of). The Sentiments. A Poem to the Earl of Danby in

the Tower. By a Person of Quality.

Folio, half morocco ^ilt. London, 1679. £1 10s

* * * Sir Thomas Osborne, successively first Earl of Danby, Marquis of Carmarthen,

and Duke of Leeds, was confined in the Tower in 1679, for his corrupt practices and
his supposed connection with the Popish Plot by the pretended revelations of Titus
Oates. For nearly five years he lay a prisoner awaiting trial,

462 DANIEL (Samuel).

CERTAINE
SMALL WORKES
HERETOFORE Di-
vulged by Samuel Daniell
one of the Groomes of the Oueenes
Maiesties most Honourable pri-
vie Chamber, and now
againe by him corrected
and augmented.
JEtas primae canat veneres, postrema tumultus.
AT LONDON
Printed by L L. for Simon Waterson
1611.

i2mo, old calf binding (a few side notes and headlines, owing to
irregular printing, shaved). £25

* * * This little volume is extremely rare. It is doubtful whether any copy exists

without the side notes or headlines being cut into. Some copies contain a leaf of
Errata, this does not.

In its Original Vellum Binding.

463 The Whole Workes of Samuel Daniel, Esquire, in Poetrie.

Thick small 4to. Fine Copy in its original vellum binding.

London, Printed by Nicholas Okes, for Simon Waterson, 1623. £48

*** The most complete Collection, published by the Author's brother. It consists of
the following Works, each with a separate title-page : -7-

The Civile Wares between the House of Lancaster and York, corrected and continued.
London, 1609. With the beautiful engraved frontispiece by Cookson containing oval
portrait of Daniel.

A Letter from Octavia to Marcus Antonius. London, 1623. With other poems.

The Tragedy of Philotas by Sam. Daniel. London, 1623.

Hymens Triumph. A Pastorall Tragi comaedia. London, 1623.

The Queenes Arcadia. A Pastorall Tragi Comedy. 1623.

The Vision of the twelve Goddesses. 1623.

The Tragedy of Cleopatra. 1623.

Plate IX.

THE

'-^

i I

HONORABLE H IS TORY

IFRIER BACON.

AND - J

FRIER BUNGAY.

fA$ it was lately plaid by the Prince Falatim his Servants,

M:xde by R^^bert Green iMsAtT of Arts }

LgndfHi Pihncd by Jean Bell , and are to be fold at the E4II er.d of

^ *■;.

Green's Friar Bacon. 1655.
Bee Item No. 756.

Plate X. .

AN ANATOMIE

OF THE METAMOR-

PHO-SED A I AX,

Wherein by a tripartite method is plainIy,o-
pcnly,and dcmon{lratiucly,dcclarcd, expla*
ned,and clicjuidatcd,by pen,plot, & precept,
^ how vnfauerie places may be made fwcct,

noyfome places made wholerome,fiIthy pla-
ces made cleanly, PubliQied for the com-
mon bcnefite of builders , houfc-
keepers , and houfc-owncrs.

Bj T.C.TrapteHer^Aprentice m l^cetrefPr$a*

Eitfertn Mnficke.-profijfor ofPawtwj^,the

mother fdanghter J andhnndmayd of all

UHhfes artes andfctences^

Inuidcquidmordes Ppidoribusatquc Poeti*,
QMidlibcc audendi Temper fuic a^qua poccHas,

AT LONDON,

Imprinted by Richard Field, dvcel-
littgiuthe Black- friers.

Title-page from Harington (Sir John) An Anatomy of the Metamorphosed A.tax,

London, 1596.

A Set of 4 jeu d'esprits by the English Rabehxis.

See Item No, 773,

MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. 97

464 D'ANYERS (Caleb). The Twickenham Hotch-Potch, for the use of the

Rev. Dr. Swift, Alexander Pope, Esq., and Company, being a sequel to
the Beggar's Opera, etc.

8vo, newly bound in full polished calf^ g. e. London^ 1728 £2 lOs

465 D ARC IE (Abraham). Annales, The True & Royall History of the Famous

Empresse Elizabeth, Queene of England, France, and Ireland, &c. True
faith's defendresse of Divine renowne & happy Memory.

Engraved portrait of Queen Elizabeth ayid engraved title in corn-
par tmejtts by Vaughan.

Small 4to, bomid by Bedford in full morocco gilt, g. e.
London, 1625. £6 lOs

Corner of one leaf mended.

*** Of Shakespearian interest. It is cited by Douce in his "Illustrations" of the
"Merry Wives of Windsor." The portrait of Queen Elizabeth is one of the finest
of the contemporary engraved portraits of her; she is in elaborate dress holding a
fan. This portrait is in duplicate, first with the verse on the reverse :■ —
" Here reade the dayes,
when Britanns ground,
With blessings all,

was compast round " ;
the other with the reverse blank. The engraved frontispiece is also very elaborate,
having at top a view of Cadiz and St. John of Portarico, with below two Naval Vic-
tories of Drake ; on either side are triple columns with armorial bearings.

466 DARWIN (Erasmus; Grandfather of Chas. Darwin). The Botanic Garden;

a Poem in Two Parts. Part I. Containing the Economy of Vegetation.
Part H. The Loves of the Plants. With Philosophical Notes.

With fine engraved frontispiece and nine engraved plates, includ-
ing the " Fertilization of Egypt,'' by Wm. Blake, and the fine plate of
the famous Portland Vase in Vol. i, and fine stipple and line engraved
frontispiece *' Flora at Play with Cupid,'' by S. Aiken, and nine en-
graved plates in Vol. 2.

2 vols, in I, thick 4to, half calf. London, 1791. £2 lOs

467 A Plan for the Conduct of Female Education in Boarding Schools.

Engraved frontispiece.

First Edition. 4to, half calf. Derby, 1797. £1 5s

468 DAYENANT (Sir William). Gondibert: An Heroick Poem.

First Edition. 4to. Fine Copy in contemporary full morocco,
g. e. London, 165 1. £5 lOs

*** ''More than a century and a half have elapsed since the first publication of
* Gondibert,' and its merits are still a subject of controversy; an indubitable proof
of some inherent excellence not willingly forgotten. The critics are marshalled on
each side, one against the other, while between these formidable lines stands the
poet, with a few scattered readers ; but what is more surprising in the history of the
' Gondibert,' the poet is a great poet, the work imperishable! " — Isaac Disraeli.

08 MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W.

Davenant (Sir William) — continued.

45q The Just Italian, lately presented in the private house at Black

Friers.

First Edition. Small 4to, half bound. London, 1630. £15 15s

4^0 The Platonick Lovers. A Tragae-comedy, presented at the

private House in the Black fryers.

First Edition. Small 4to, morocco. London, 1636. £8 8s

Charles II. 's Copy.

471 DAYIES (James). The History of His Sacred Majesty Charles the II.

Third Monarch of Great Britain, Crowned King of Scotland, at Scoone
the first of January 1650. Begun from the Death of his Royall Father
of Happy Memory, and continued to the present year, 1660. By a
Person of Quality.

i2mo, with the very rare leaf before the title, and the extra leaf at
end " On his Majesties Picture,'' original calf.

London, Printed for Ja^nes Davies, 1660. £6 6s

* ** The Royal Copy, with King Charles II. 's initials " C.R.," surmounted by a crown
in gold on sides.

"It is somewhat hard to decide upon the authorship of this scarce volume, as Davies
seems to claim it in his Preface, while ' a hearty well-wisher to his countrey,' in an
address * To the Reader in general,' speaks of the work as his. Perhaps he and
Davies were one and the same. The book was written before the Restoration. Tlie
last page has some verses ' On his Majesties Picture, Anno 1659.' " — (Hazlitt.)

472 DAVILA (H. C). The Historie of the Civill Warres of France, Written m

Italian by H. C. Davila, translated out of the Original. 1647.
The Continuation and Conclusion of the Civill Warres of France. 1648.

2 vols., full calf gilt. London, 1647-8. £1 15s

473 DAY (John). Day's Dyall; or. His Twelve Howres, that is, twelve severall

Lectures by way of Catechisme, as they were delivered by him in the
Chappel of Oriell Colledge in Oxford, in the yeeres of our Lord God
1612 and 1613.

Small 4to, boards. Oxford, Printed by Joseph Barnes, 16 14. 15s

The most Famous Book for Children in the. English Language.

474 [DAY (Thomas).] The History of Sandford and Morton.

A Work intended for the Use of Children.

With two frontispieces.

The extremely rare FIRST EDITION of each volume.

3 vols., small 8vo. Fine copy in the original calf (joints repaired).
London, 1783-86-89.

(See ILLUSTRATION, Plate No. V.). £35

MAGGS BROS., 34 ^ 35, Conduit Street, London,

4/8 DEFOE (Daniel). Robinson Crusoe. First Edition.

THE
LIFE

and
STRANGE SURPRIZING
ADVENTURES
of
ROBINSON CRUSOE,
Of YORK, Mariner:
Who lived Eight and Twenty Years,
dl alone in an un-inhabited Island on the
Coast of America, near the Mouth of
the Great River of OROONOQUE ;
iving been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, where-
in all the Men perished but himself.
WITH
L Account how he was at last as strangely deli-
ver'd by PYRATES.

Written by Himself.

LONDON :

ted for W. Taylor at the Ship in Pater-Noster-
Row. MDCCXIX.

THE FARTHER

ADVENTURES

ROBINSON CRUSOE ;

Being the Second and Last Part

of his

LIFE,

And of the Strange Surprizing

ACCOUNTS of his TRAVELS

Round three Parts of the Globe.

Written by Himself.

To which is added a Map of the World, in which i
Delineated the Voyages of Robinson Crusoe.

(Vignette of ship.)

LONDON : Printed for W. TAYLOR at the
Ship in Pater-Noster-Row. MDCCXIX.

First Edition. 2 vols., 8vo, contemporary calf.
London^ lyig.

£150

* * * Volume I. has the frontispiece. The catchword on first leaf of Preface is
'' apply," and on page 343 is the misprint "Pilate."

The second volume has the folding Map of the World, and is the First Issue, having
the verso of last leaf of Preface blank.

The supposed " points," signifying the first issues of this famous book, are stumbling-
blocks to all bibliographers.

Professor W. P. Trent, of Columbia University, undoubtedly the foremost authority
on Defoe, after extended research and the comparison of many copies, states that
he is of the opinion that any purchaser entering Taylor's shop at the sign of the
Ship, in Pater Noster Row on April 25th, 1719 (usually taken as the date of issue),
might have been handed a copy falling under any of the following categories : —

With " apply " in the preface, and " Pilot," on page 343, line 2.

With ** apply " in the preface, and '' Pilate " on page 343.

With *' apyly " in the preface, and " Pilate " on page 343.

With " apyly " in the preface, and " Pilot " on page 343.

It is unquestionably wrong, in his opinion, to call any one of these " first issues."
Prof. Trent sees no reason to believe that there was a re-issue with " apyly " cor-
rected in the preface. Both these mistakes were quite probably corrected while the
sheets were passing through the press, and it depends on how the sheets were
collated by the binder what category of the four given any special copy belongs to.

This Copy carries on title-page of the First Volume the Autograph of the Original
Owner, and date of purchase :

JOHN LORD. APRIL, 1719,
thus proving that Prof. Trent's theory is correct, and showing also that this copy
was purchased during the first days of its publication (one leaf has some brown
stains).

!00 MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London. W.

Defoe (Daniel) — continued.

479

Robinson Crusoe.

With frontispiece.

The Third Edition. 8vo, original calf. London, 1719. £3 3s

480 Robinson Crusoe. Another Edition.

Small 8vo, original calf. London, 1777. 8s 6d

481 The Complete English Tradesman, in familiar letters; directing

him in all the several parts and progressions of Trade.

First Edition, ^yo, original calf . London, i'j26. £1 5s

482 The Consolidator;

or, Memoirs of Sundry Transactions from the World, in the Moon.
Translated from the Lunar Language, by the Author of the True-born
English Man.

First Edition. 8vo, fidl calf, g. e. London, 1705. £2 2s

483 The Life and Adventures of Mrs. Christian Davies, commonly

call'd Mother Ross : who in several Campaigns under King William and
the late Duke of Marlborough in the quality of a Foot-soldier and
Dragoon gave many signal proofs of an unparallell'd Courage and per-
sonal Bravery.

First Edition. 8vo, original calf. London, 1740. £3 lOs

485 Memoirs of a Cavalier; or a Mihtary Journal of the Wars in Ger-
many, and the Wars in England ; from the year 1632 to the year 1648.
First Edition. 8vo, original calf. London (1724). £2 5s

486 The Memoirs of an English Officer, who served in the Dutch War

in 1672, to the Peace of Utrecht, in 17 13, by Capt. George Carleton.

First Edition. 8vo, full calf, rebacked. London, 1728. £2 lOs

487 Memoirs of the Church of Scotland, in four Periods. With an

Appendix of some Transactions Since the Union.

First Edition. %vo, full calf . London, 1717. £2 2s

MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, Londor.,' W, ' ,/ ] ici

Defoe (Daniel) — contimied.

488 A New Discovery of an Old Intreague: a Satyr levelled at

Treachery and Ambition : calculated to the Nativity of the Rapparee
Plott and the Modesty of the Jacobite Clergy.

First Edition. Small 4to, half morocco. 169 1. £2 2s

489 The Political History of the Devil, as well Ancient as Modern, in

two parts. Frontispiece.

First Edition. 8vo, original calf. London, 1726. £2 2s

490 The History of Mademoiselle de Beleau; or, the New Roxana,

the fortunate Mistress; afterwards Countess of Wintselsheim. Portrait.

Sim{\%\o, original half calf . London, 1775. £1

One of Defoe's Rarest Books.

491 Roxana.

The Fortunate Mistress : or a History of the Life and Vast Variety
of Fortunes of Mademoiselle de Beleau; afterwards call'd the Countess
de Wintselsheim in Germany,

being the Person known by the name of the Lady Roxana, in the time
of King Charles IL

Portrait as frontispiece.

First Edition. %\o, original calf . London, 1^2^.

(See Illustration, Plate No. VL). £35

492 The Storm; or, a Collection of the most remarkable Casualties

and Disasters which happened in the late'Dreadful Tempest, both by Sea
and Land.

First Edition, ^wo, original calf (re backed), y. e. 1704. £2 10s

*** With the folding leaf '' A List of such of Her Majesty's Ships, with their Com-
manders' Names, as were cast away by the Violent Storm."

*** Defoe's account of this dreadfud storm remains to this time as the one genuine
and authentic history of the event. In addition to the numerous letters he has
inserted from clergymen and others, he must have received the verbal relations of
many eye-witnesses ; and these are told with the peculiar circumstantiality of his
genius, so that no doubt can exist of their reality.

493 DEKKER (Thos.) The Honest Whore: with the Humours of the Patient
Man, and the Longing Wife; as it hath beene acted by her Majesties
Servants with great applause.
A scarce early Edition.
Small 4to, half morocco neat. London, 1635. £6 10s

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494 DELONEY (Thos.) The Garland of Good-Will: divided into Three Parts,

containing many Pleasant Songs and Poems.

l2mo. Fine Copy in full calf, gilt edges, by Riviere.

London, circa 1690. £5 lOs

Includes: — The Death of Fair Rosamond. The Lamentation of Shore's Wife. The
Banishment of the two Dukes of Hereford and Norfolk. Etc.

495 Thomas of Reading; or, the Sixe Worthie Yeomen of the West,

now for the sixth time corrected and enlarged by T. D.

Printed in Black Letter, interspersed with Songs.

Small 4to, half vellum.

London, Printed by Eliz. Allde for Robert Bird, 1632.

(See Illustration, Plate No. VII. ). £64

" Thomas Deloney was a famous Ballad maker of his day. He appears to have drawn
upon himself the indignation of Kemp (one of the original actors of Shakespeare).
Kemp is celebrated for his miraculous morris-dance, performed in nine days from
London to Norwich, but this feat having been misrepresented in the popular ballads,
Kemp remonstrated against the author. Thomas of Reading contains many curious
allusions to manners and customs now obsolete." — Thomas' Early Press Romances.

496 DE MORAES (Francisco). Palmerin of England. Corrected by Robert

Southey from the original Portugueze.

4 vols., i2mo, original calf. London, 1807. "'Ss

497 DEN HAM (Sir John). Cooper's Hill. Written in the Yeare 1640.

Now printed from a perfect copy, and a corrected impression.

First Complete Edition. Small 4to, full calf gilt.

London, 1655. £5 5s

*** " Sir John Denham, in his ' Cooper's Hill,' has a loftiness and vigour which had
not before him been attained by any English poet who wrote in rhyme. The mechani-
cal difficulties of that measure retarded its improvement. Shakespeare, whose tragic
scenes are sometimes so wonderfully forcible and expressive, is a very different poet
when he attempts to rhyme." — David Hume.

498 Poems and Translations, with the Sophy.

First Collected Edition. Small 8vo. Fine Copy bound by Zaehns-
dorf in full crushed levant morocco gilt, g. e.

London, 1668. £10 lOs

* * * Shakespeare is mentioned on pages 89, 90, and 118 of the printed book.

" By Shakespear's, Johnson's, Fletcher's lines,
Our Stages lustre Rome's outshines :
These Poets neer our Princes sleep,
And in one Grave their Mansion keep ;

^'Continued over)

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Denham (Sir John) Poems and Translations — continued,

"■ Time, which made them their Fame outlive,
To Cowly scarce did ripeness give.
Old Mother Wit, and Nature gave
Shakespear and Fletcher all they have ;
In Spencer, and in Johnson, Art
Of slower Nature got the start."

The editor of Shakespeare's '' Centurie of Prayse " remarks: "Did Sir John really
think that Shakespeare was buried in Westminster Abbey, as the above lines would
seem to imply."

499 DENMARK. Denmark Vindicated; being an Answer to a late Treatise

called '* An Account of Denmark, as it was in the year 1692," by J. CD.

8vo, original calf. London, 1694. 10s 6d

500 DENNIS (John). Liberty Asserted. A Tragedy.

First Edition. Small 4to, seiun. London, 1704. £3 10§

*-x-* '« The Scene of this Tragedy lies at Agnie, in Canada. Canada is a vast tract of
land in Northern America, on the back of New England and New York. As New
England and New York and the country about them belong to the English, a con-
siderable part of. Canada is possess'd by the French ; and as the English and French
divide the Country they divide the Natives."' — Preface.

501 A Plot, and no Plot.

A Comedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal, in Drury-Lane.
First Edition. Small 4to, half calf, m. e., by Ramage.
London (1697). £3 3s

This is Dennis's first Play — an Anti- Jacobite performance. It was acted at Drury
Lane in 1697.

502 DIALLING. Barba (A. A.). A Collection of Scarce and Valuable

Treatises upon Metals, Mines, and Minerals. Containing, The Art of
Dyalling or Levelling Grooves, The Art of Melting, Refining, and
Assaying all Sorts of Metals, Observations on Mines, Experiments of
Gold, etc. London, 1739.

Houghton (T.). The Compleat Miner, containing the Laws and Customs
of Lead Mines at Wirksworth in Derbyshire, The Art of Dialling, etc.
London, 1738. 2 vols, in i, i2mo, original calf. 10s 6d

Pp. 1-2 in first work imperfect.

503 Gierke (Gilbert). The Spot-Dial, very Useful to Shew the Hour

within the House ; together with Directions how to find a true Meridan,
the Azymuth and Declination ; and how to draw a Dial upon a Staff, etc.

Small 4to, half bound.

London, J. M. for Walter Kettilby at the Bishops-Head in St.
Pauls, 1687. *2 28

104 MACxGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London,

Dialling — continued.

504 Collins (John). The Sector on a Quadrant; or, A Treatise con-
taining the description and use of three several Quadrants, each ren-
dered many ways both General and Particular. Accommodated for
Dyaiiing, for the resolving of all Proportions instrumentally, and for
the ready finding the Hour and Azimuth universally, in the equal Limb.
Of great use to Seamen, and Practitioners in the Mathematiques. Also
an appendix touching reflected Dyaiiing, from a Glass however posited.

With large cuts of each Quadrant.

Small 4to, original calf, rebacked. London, 1658. £2 2s

505 Gunter (E.). The Description and Use of His Maiesties Dials in

White-Hall Garden.

London, 1624.

Leybourn (WilHam). The Art of Dialling, by a New, Easie, and most
Speedy Way. Shewing how to describe the Hour Lines upon all sorts
of Plains; Howsoever, or in what Latitude soever, situated. Also to
find the Hour of the Day, and the Azimuth of the Sun, whereby the
Sight of any Plain is Examined. Performed by a Quadrant filled with
Lines necessary to that purpose.

The Second Edition, with several Additions and Variations of the
Authors, deduced from his own Manuscript.

With a Supplement, Performing all the Instrumental Work of the
Quadrant, by Calculation. By help of the Canons of Sines and Tan-
gents, which of all ways is the most Exact,

London, 1675.

The Two Works in one volume. Small 4to, old half calf. £3 3s

506 Leybourn (WilHam). The Art of Dialling; performed geo-
metrically, by scale and compasses ; arithmetically, by the Canons of
Sines and Tangents; instrumentally, by a Trigonal Instrument, accom-
modated with Lines for that purpose.

With numerous illustrations.

Small 4to, neivly bound in half calf gilt,^g. e.

London, 1669. £3 15s

507 Stirrup (Thomas). Horometria; or. The Compleat DialHst.

Wherein the whole mystery of the Art of Dialling is plainly taught

three several ways, two of which are performed Geometrically by Rule
and Compasse onely ; and the third Instrumentally, by a Quadrant fitted
for that purpose. Whereunto is added an Appendix by W. L.

Illustrated with diagrams. Small 4to, original calf.

London, 1652. £4 4s

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508 DICTIONARIES. Blount (T). Glossographia: or, A Dictionary, inter-
preting all such Hard Words, whether Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Italian,
Spanish, French, Teutonick, Belgick, British, or Saxon, as now used in
our refined English Tongue, also terms of Divinity, Law, Physick, War,
Music, etc., with Etymologies.

First Edition. Small 8vo, half calf. London, 1656. 16s 6d

509 — B(ullokar) J(ohn). An English Expositor; teaching the interpre-
tation of the hardest words used in our Language, with sundry explica-
tions, descriptions, and discourses.

Small 8vo, old calf (rebacked).

London, 1641. £1 Is

* * * This is the 3rd edition of the first English Dictionary — it was compiled about the
year 1609 and first published in 1616.

510 Cotgrave (Randle). A Dictionarie of the French and English

Tongues.

Whereunto is also annexed a most copious Dictionarie of the English
set before the French, by Robert Sherwood.
Fine woodcut title.
Thick folio, original calf. London, Adam Islip, 1632. £6 6s

Fine and complete copy, with the rare folding " Table of the Conjugations of perfect
verbs."

5 1 1 A French and English Dictionary, composed by Mr.

Randle Cotgrave; with another in English and French. Whereunto are
added sundry Animadversions, with Supplements of many hundreds of
words never before printed. Together with a large Grammar, and a
Dialogue consisting of all Gallicismes, with additions of the most useful
and significant Proverbs, with other refinements according to Cardinal!
Richelieu's late Academy. By James Howell.

Thick folio, full calf gilt, g. e. London, 1660. . £2 5s

512 Gazophylacium Anglicanum; containing the derivation of Eng-

hsh Words, proper and common ; each m an Alphabet distinct. Proving
the Dutch and Saxon to be the prime Fountains. And Hkewise giving
the Similar Words in most European Languages, whereby any of them
may be indifferently well Learned and Understood.

Thick small 8vo, original calf. London, 1689. 10s 6d

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Dictionaries — continued.
513 Howell (James). Lexicon Tetraglotton, an English-French-
Italian-Spanish Dictionary.

Whereunto is adjoined a large Nomenclature of the proper Terms
belonging to several Arts and Sciences, to Recreations, to Professions
both Liberal and Mechanick, etc., 1660.

Proverbs, or Old Sayed Sawes and Adages, in English (or the Saxon
Toung), Italian, French, and Spanish, Thereunto the British, for their
great antiquity and weight, are added, etc., 1659.

In I vol. With the rare engraved frontispiece by Fait home (slightly
scraped).

Folio, original calf, newly rebacked. London, 1659- 1660. £5 5s

514 Lexicon Tetraglotton; an English-French-italian-Spanish

Dictionary, wherein is adjoined a large Nomenclature of the proper
Terms belonging to several Arts and Sciences, to Recreations, to Profes-
sions both Liberal and Mechanick, etc., i66o.

Proverbs, or. Old Sayed Sawes & Adages in EngHsh (or the Saxon
Toung), Italian, French and Spanish, whereunto the British, for their
great Antiquity, and weight are added, etc., 1659.

In I vol. No frontispiece.

Folio, original vellum. London^ 1659-60. £1 lOs

515 Thesaurus Linguae Romanae & Britannicae, tam accurate con-

gestus, ut nihil pene in eo desyderari possit, quod vel Latine complec-
tatur amplissumus Stepani Thesaurus, vel Anglice, toties aucta Eliotae
Bibliotheca ; opera & industria Thomae Cooperi Magdalenensis. Acces-
sit Dictionarium Historicum & Poeticum propria vocabula Virorum,
Mulierum, Sectarum, Populorum, Urbium, Montium, & caeterorum
locorum complectens, & in his incundissimas & omnium cognitione dignis-
simas historias.

Thick folio, half calf {rebacked). London, 1573. £1 1s

516 Minsheus (J). Dictionary of Nine Languages. The Guide into

the Tongues. With their agreement and consent one with another, as
also their Etymologies, that is, the Reasons and Derivations of all or
the most part of words, in these nine Languages, viz., English; Low
Dutch; High Dutch; French; Itahan; Spanisn; Latine; Greeke; Hebrew.

Folio, full calf (rebacked). London, 1627. £2 2s

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Dictionaries — continued.

51; — Phillips (E). The New World of Words; or, a General English

Dictionary, containing the proper Signfications, and Etymologies of
all words derived from other Languages; together with the definitions
of all those terms that conduce to the understanding of any of the Arts
or Sciences, to which are added the Significations of Proper Names,
derived from the Ancient or Modern Tongues.

Frontispiece, containing 10 portraits of celebrities.

Fourth Edition. Folio, original calf {rebacked).

London, 1678. £2 2s

518 Phillips (E). New World of Words. Another Edition.

Frontispiece, containing 10 portraits of celebrities.

Sixth Edition. Edited by J. Kersey. Folio, original calf.

London, 1706. £1 lOs

In Defence of the East India Company's Monopoly.

519 DIGGES (Dudley). The Defence of Trade. In a letter to Sir Thomas
Smith, Knight Governour, of the East India Companie, etc., from one
of that Societie.

4to, vellum {by Riviere^, g. e. London^ 161 5. £25

The above pamphlet, the only one he published on Indian subjects, was written in
defence of the East India Company's monopoly.

Sir Dudley Digges was born in 1583 and went to University College, Oxford. After
taking his degree he spent some years in foreign travel, in 1607 he was knighted at
Whitehall. Digges early became a shareholder in the East India Company, and was
much interested in the North- West passage project, being one of the founders of
the Company, incorporated in 1612 for the purpose of trading by that route — then
supposed to have been discovered — with the East; in 1614 he was one of the candi-
dates for the governorship of the East India Company. He took an active part in
the Parliamentary debates of that year, giving so much offence to the King, that he
was imprisoned for a short time. In 1618 the Emperor of Russia^ who was then
engaged in a war with Poland, being desirous of negotiating alone, James I. ordered
the Muscovy and East India Companies to furnish the money, and despatched Digges
to Russia to arrange the terms. He left England in April, taking with him £20,000,
and on reaching Russia, sent his secretary, Finch, to Moscow with £10,000 and
letters from the King. The Russian Emperor would hear of no terms, but compelled
Finch to hand over the money. Digges returned to England with the balance in
October. In 1620 Digges was sent to Holland to negotiate a settlement of the
disputes between the English and Dutch East India Companies. In 1636 Sir Julius
Caesar, Master of the Rolls, died, and Digges succeeded to his office.

Digges died in 1638 and left an annuity of £20 to provide prizes for a foot-race, open
to competitors of both sexes, to be run in the neighbourhood of Faversham every
19th of May. The annual competition was kept up until the end of the last century.

Sir Thomas Smith, to whom the book is dedicated and written, was born about 1558,

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Digges (Dudley) — continued.

and in June, 1604, he was appointed to be special ambassador to the Czar of Russia.

** When the East India Company was formed in October, 1600, he was elected the first
governor, and was so appointed by the charter dated 31st Dec. In 1604 he was ap-
pointed one of the receivers for the Duchy of Cornwall, and, in June, to be special
ambassador to the Tsar of Russia. His grandfather, Sir Andrew Judd, was one of
the founders of the Muscovy Company, and he himself would seem to have been
largely interested in the Muscovy trade. Sailing from Gravesend on 13th June, he,
with his party, arrived at Archangel on 22nd July, and was conducted by way of
Kholmogori and Vologhda to Jaroslav, where the Emperor then was. In the course
of the winter he obtained a grant of new privileges for the company, and in the
spring went on to Moscow, whence he returned to Archangel and sailed for England
on 28th May.

" In 1603 Smith was re-elected governor of the East India Company, and with one
break, 1606-7, continued to hold the office till July, 1621, during which time the
company's trade was developed and established. In January, 1618-19, he was ap-
pointed one of the commissioners for the settlement of the differences with the
Dutch, which, however, after some years of discussion, remained for the time, un-
settled. His connection with the East India Company and the Muscovy Company
led him to promote and support voyages for the discovery of the North-West Pas-
sage, and his name, as given by William Baffin to Smith's Sound, stands as a me-
morial to all time of his enlightened and liberal energy. In 1609 he obtained the
charter for the Virginia Company, of which he was the treasurer, an office which he
held till 1620, when, on being charged with enriching himself at the expense of the
company, and on a demand for inquiry, he resigned. The charges against him,
which were urged with great virulence, were formally pronounced to be false and
slanderous, though Smith was not held to be altogether free from blame ; and the
renewed inquiry was still going on, when he died at Sutton-at-Hone in Kent on
Sept. 1625. He was buried at Sutton, where, in the church, there is an elaborate
monument to his memory. The charges against him had met with no acceptance
from the king ; to the last he was consulted on all important matters relating to
shipping and to eastern trade, and for several years was one of the chief commis-
sioners of the Navy, as also governor of the French and Somer Islands companies."
— (D.N.B.)

520 DIGGES (Thomas). An Arithmetical Warlike Treatise Kamed Stratio-
ticos, compendiously teaching the Science of Numbers as well in Frac-
tions as Integers, and so much of the Rules and ^Equations Algebraicall,
and Art of Nombers Cossicall, as are requisite for the profession of a
Souldier. Together with the Moderne Militare Discipline, Offices,
Lawes and Orders in every well gouerned Campe and Armie inuiolably
to be observed.

As well concerning the Science or Art of great Artillerie, as the
Offices of the Sergeant Major Generall, the Muster Maistre Generall, the
Coronell Generall, and Lord Marshall, with a conference of the English,
French, and Spanish Disciplines, besides sundrie other Militare Dis-
courses of no small importance.

Reverse of title occupied with a large woodcut of the Royal Arms
of England, folding plate of military positions, and on final leaf a wood-
.cut Coat of Arms on obverse, with printer's device and colophon on
reverse.

Small 4to. Fine Copy in original vellum binding.

London, Imprinted by Richard Field y 1590. £4 4s

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521 DIVINE FANCIES; or, the Beginning, Progress, and End of Man, shew-

ing the Vanity and Frailty of Man's Life, from his Birth even to his
Death.

A Series of 10 curious woodcuts, each with explanation in verse,
in two rows of five in each, the upper made to lift and reveal the lower
five.

Narrow small 8vo, cloth.

London, pinted for and sold by John Smith. Circa 1680. £2 2s

522 DODSLEY (Robert). Miscellanies.

With engraved portrait of R. Dodsley, and plates.

2 voh>.,%YO, original calf . London, ly/]^^. 10s 6d

523 — The Oeconomy of Human Life; translated from an Indian Manu-
script, written by an ancient Bramin. To which is prefix' d, An Account
of the Manner in which the said Manuscript was discovered.

First Edition. Post 8vo, newly bound by Riviere in full calf,
gilt back, gilt lines on sides, uncut, t. e. g. London, 175 1. £1 10s

524 DONALDSON (J.). A Panegyrick upon the most Honourable, Ancient

and Excellent Art of Wright-Craft.

Small 4to, boards. Edinburgh, 17 13. 8s 6(1

525 DONNE (John). Biathanatos.

A Declaration of that Paradoxe, or Thesis, that Selfe-homicide is
not so Naturally Sinne, that it may never be otherwise, wherein the
Nature, and the extent of all those Lawes, which seeme to be violated
by this Act, are diligently surveyed.

First Edition. Small 4to, original calf (jebacked).

London (1644). £15 15s

** Biathanatos is the earliest of Donne's controversial writings. His neurotic tempera-
ment had for many years been fascinated by the thought of suicide, and in this work,
written probably in 1608, he sought by the most ingenious casuistry to justify the
act of self-destruction. ' Whensoever any affliction assails me,' he wrote in the
preface, ' me thinks I have the keyes of my prison in mine owne hand, and no remedy
presents it selfe so soone to my heart, as mine own sword.' Donne was unwilling
either to publish or to destroy this curious and characteristic product of his brain,
and it was therefore handed round to his friends in manuscript. His desire was that
after his death the book should still be preserved but not published ; his son never-
theless assumed the responsibility of making it public, and it was duly licensed on
September 20, 1644. The title-page of the first issue is not dated and appears to
be unfinished, but this was probably an oversight on the part of the printer." —
G. Keynes.

no MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London. W.

Donne (John) — continued.

526 Devotions upon Emergent Occasions,

and Severall steps in my Sicknes : digested into

1. Meditations upon our Humane Condition.

2. Expostulations, and Debatements with God.

3. Prayers, upon the Severall Occasions, to him.

First Edition. Thick small 8vo, original calf, rebacked.

London, 1624. £13 13s

*** When Convocation met in 1623, Donne was cliosen prolocutor, and in November
of the same year he fell ill with what seems to have been typhoid fever. He was
in considerable danger, and hardly expected to recover. During all his illiless his
mind was incessantly at work; a feverish restlessness kept him still with the pen in
his hand from day to day, and almost from hour to hour. He kept a kind of journal
of his words and prayers, and hopes and yearnings during his sickness, and on his
recovery he published the result in a little book, which was very widely read at the
time, and went through several editions during the next few years. It was entitled
' Devotions upon Emergent Occasions, and Several Steps in my Sickness.' It was
dedicated to Prince Charles. Copies of the original impression are rarities." — D.N.B.

527 Encaenia. The Feast of Dedication.

Celebrated at Lincolns Inn, in a Sermone there upon Ascension Day,
1623, at the Dedication of a new Chappell there, consecrated by the
Right Reverend Father in God, the Bishop of London.

Preached by John Donne, Deane of St. Pauls.

First Edition. Small 4to. Fine copy, bound in full polished calf
gilt, g. e., by Riviere.

London, 1623. £18 18s

528 The First Sermon Preached to King Charles,

at Saint James, 3 April, 1625, by John Donne, Deane of Saint Pauls.

First Edition. Small 4to, newly bound in polished calf gilt, g. e.,

by Riviere. London, 1625. £14 14s

* * * Tliis was the first sermon that King Charles the First heard after his accession.

529 Juvenilia; or, Certaine Paradoxes and Problemes.

First Edition. Small 4to. Fine Copy, handsomely bound by
Riviere in full crushed levant morocco, g. e.

E. P. for Henry Seyle, 1633. £21

**♦ "Donne's Juvenilia are clever and entertaining trifles, which were probably
written before 1600 during the more wanton period of their author's life. Owing to
their scurrilous nature they could not be published during Donne's lifetime, but in
1632, shortly after his death, part of them were licensed by Sir Henry Herbert. The
licences were granted on October 25, 1632, but on November 14 an order of inquiry
was delivered at the King's command by the Bishop of London calling upon Sir
Henry Herbert to explain before the Board of the Star Chamber his reasons " why
hee warranted the booke of D. Duns paradoxes to bee printed." The inquiry, how-
ever, was ineffectual in preventing the publication of the book, the title-page of

(Continued over)

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Donne (John) — continued.

which is dated 1633. It is not known through what channels the publisher, Henry
Seyle, obtained possession of the text, but it is probable that the publication was
quite unauthorised, and took place even without the knowledge of John Donne, Jun.,
who, in his edition of 1652, makes no reference to any previous issues. Although
the King did not succeed in stopping the publication of the Juvenilia, the licences
were withdrawn, so that when the demand for the book encouraged the publication
of a second edition during the same year, the publisher took upon himself to issue
it unlicensed." — (Keynes.)

530 POEMS

By J. D.,

with

ELEGIES

ON THE AUTHOR'S

DEATH.

LONDON :

Printed by M. F., for John Harriot,

and are to be sold at his shop in S. Dunstans

Church-yard in Fleet-street, 1633.

First Edition. Small 410. Handsomely bound by Riviere in full
crushed levant morocco ^ g. e.

A VERY FINE COPY. £50

531 Poems, By J. D.

With Elegies on the Author's Death.

Wit/i beautiful portrait of Donne by Marshall.

i2mo, original calf. London^ 1639. £10 10s

532 Poems, etc-, with Elegies on the Author's Death. To which is

added divers copies under his own hand never before printed.

Small 8vo, original calf. London, 1669. £1 16s

Wants portrait of Donne.

533 A Sermon upon the XX Verse of the Y Chapter of the Booke of

Judges,

wherein occasion was justly taken for the Publication of Some Reasons,
which his Sacred Maiestie had been pleased to give, of those Directions
for Preachers, which hee had formerly sent foorth. Preached at the
Crosse the 15th of September, 1622.

Small 4to, full polished calf. Riviere, g. e.

London, 1622. £18 18s

*** This is Donne's First Printed Sermon. ''It was delivered at Paul's Cross on
15th Sept. to an enormous congregation, in obedience to the King's commands, who
had just issued his ' Directions to Preachers,' and had made choice of the Dean of
St. Paul's to explain his reasons for issuing the injunctions.'' — D.N.B.

112 MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W.

534 DORSET. Blandford. Blake (Malachi). A Brief Account of the Dread-

ful Fire at Blandford Forum in the County of Dorset which happened
June iv., Mdccxxxi, Together with a Sermon preached at Blandford,
June 4, 1735, being the Day set apart by the Protestant Dissenters there
for Prayer and Humihation under the Remembrance of that said
Providence.

Folding plan of the Town.

116 pp., small 8vo, unbound. London, 1735. 10s 6d

535 DOUGLAS (Garvin, Bishop of Dunkeld). Virgil's /Eneis translated into

Scottish Verse.

A New Edition wherein the many errors of the former are cor-
rected, to which is added a large Glossary, explaining the difficult
Words, which may serve for a Dictionary to the Old Scottish Language,

Folio, original calf. Edinburgh, 17 10. £1 lOs

536 DOUGHTY (John). The Kings Cause rationally, briefly, and plainly

debated, as it stands Defacto. Against the Irrationall, groundless mis-
prisions of a still deceived sort of People.

45 pp., small 4to, unbomid. 1644. £1 Is

* * * This tract is by John Doughty, of Merton College, Oxford. It was issued without
Printer's or Publisher's name or Place of Publication.

After the Restoration Doughty petitioned the King for a vacant prebend in West-
minster Abbey on the ground that when prevented from preaching he had justified
the cause of the King and the Church by his pen.

537 DRAYTON (Michael). Poly-Olbion:

or, a Chorographicall Description of Tracts, Rivers, Mountains, Forests,
and other Parts of this renowned Isle of Great Britaine, with intermix-
ture of the most Remarquable Stories, Antiquities, Wonders, Rarityes,
Pleasures, and Commodities of the Same : Digested in a Poem by
Michael Drayton, with a Table added, for direction to those occurrences
of Story and Antiquitie, whereunto the Course of the Volume easily
leades not.

Finely engraved title by W. Hole, and brilliant impression of the
Portrait of Prince Henry by Hole, together with the 30 double-paged
Maps, and with the printed title to both parts.

The Two Parts Complete. Folio, full morocco, centre gold orna-
ment on sides, g. e.

London-. Printed by Augustine Mathewes, 1622. £18 18s

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Drayton (Michael) — continued.

538 Works. Containing: —

I. The Battle of Agincourt.
II. The Barons* Wars.

III. England's Heroical Epistles.

IV. The Miseries of Queen Margaret, the Unfortunate Wife of

the most Unfortunate King Henry VI.

V. Nymphidia : or the Court of Fairy.

VI. The Moon-calf.

VII. The Legends of Robert Duke of Normandy, Matilda the
Fair, Pierce Gaveston, and Tho. Cromwell E. of Essex.

VIII. The Quest of Cynthia.

IX. The Shepherd's Sirena.

X. Poly-Olbion, with the Annotations of the learned Selden.

XI. Elegies on several occasions.

XII. Ideas.

Being all the Writings of that celebrated Author, now first collected
in one volume.

First Folio Edition. Large folio, original calf, inorocco back.
London: Printed by J. Hughs, 1748. £3 3s

539 Works, with an Historical Essay on his Life and Writings.

Engraved frontispiece.

Best Edition. 4 vols., 8vo, original calf. London, 1753. £4 18s

540 DRESS. The Dangerous Consequences of Luxury, Excess of Apparel,

and other Foreign Vices, lately imported among us, considered. With a
Word to the Army.

4to, faper covers. L^ondon, 1737. 18s

541 DRUMMOND (William). The History of Scotland, from the year 1423,

until the year 1542. Containing the Lives and Reigns of James the 1st,
2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th. With several Memorials of State during the
reigns of James VI. and Charles ist. With a Prefatory Introduction by
Mr. Hall.

Illustrated with a fine impression of the portrait of the author by
Gaywoody and the portraits of the five James' s.

First Edition. ¥o\\o, old calf (re backed). London, i6sS- £5 5s

114 MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street. London, W.

541a DRUMMOND (William, of Hawthornden). Poems. The second im-
pression.

Woodcut border to title.

Small 4to, old brown calf {rebacked), g, e.

Edinburgh^ Printed by Andro Hart, 1616. £150

*** OF THE GREATEST RARITY. OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION OF DRUM-
MOND'S POEMS PUBLISHED IN THE SAME YEAR ONLY ONE COPY IS
KNOWN. ALTHOUGH CALLED THE SECOND IMPRESSION ON TITLE, IT
IS THE SAME IN ITS CONTENTS AS THE FIRST, WITH MERELY A CHANGE
OF TITLE. MR. HEBER WAS OF OPINION, ON A MINUTE AND CAREFUL
COMPARISON OF THE TWO, THAT THEY WERE BOTH TYPOGRAPHICALLY
THE SAME EDITION, AND THAT THE CHANGE IN THE TITLE-PAGE IN
THE SECOND WAS MERELY ON ACCOUNT OF SOME OTHER MATTER BEING
ADDED AT THE END.

The present copy is a very good one, with separate titles to VRANIA, or SPIRITUALL
POEMS, and MADRIGALLS, and EPIGRAMMES, but margins of six leaves re-
stored.

Edward Phillips {nephew of Milton) says of Drummond that "neither Tasso nor
Guarini, nor any of the most neat and refined spirits of Italy, nor even the choicest
of our English poets, can challenge to themselves any advantages above him, nor
any attribute superiour to what he deserves ; nor shall I think it any arrogance to
maintain, that among all the severall fancies, that in these times have exercised
the most nice and curious judgements, there hath not come forth anything that
deserves to be welcom'd into the world with greater estimation & applause. . . .
Had there been nothing extant of him but his History of Scotland, consider but the
Language, how florid and ornate it is ; consider the order, & the prudent conduct
of his Story, and you will ranke him in the number of the best writers, and compare
him even with Thuanus himselfe. Neither is he lesse happy in his Verse than
prose : for here are all those graces met together that conduce any thing toward the
making up of a compleat & perfect Poet, a decent and becoming majesty, a brave
& admirable height, & a wit so following, that Jove himselfe never dranke Nectar
that sparkled with a more spritly lustre." The writer of an excellent article on
the Poems of Drummond in the Retrosp. Rev. has conjectured that this passage
may not improbably reflect the opinion of Milton himself on these Poems and their
author, and on that account is of some value. Whether this conjecture be true or
not, it is well known that Milton was an admirer of the poet of Hawthornden, and
that some of his graceful epithets and phrases are to be traced in Milton's writings.
(Corser's Collectanea Anglo-Poetica.)

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JOHN DRYDEN.

542 Absalom and Achitophel. A Poem.

London, 168 1.

The Second Part of Absalom and Achitophel. A Poem.

London, 1682.

First Edition of each par^

Folio, bound by Rivie?e in full -polished calf gilt, g. e. £16 16s

*** The Extremely Rare First Edition of the most celebrated of Drydeii's Political
Satires, and perhaps the greatest Satire in English,

" In one respect this poem stands alone in literature. A party Pamphlet dedicated to
the hour, it is yet immortal. No poem in our language is so interpenetrated with
contemporary allusion, with contemporary portraiture, with contemporary point, yet
no poem in our language has been more enjoyed by succeeding generations of readers.
Scores of intelligent men who know by heart the characters of Zimri and Achitophel
are content to remain in ignorance of the political careers of Buckingham and
Shaftesbury. The speech in which Achitophel incites his faltering disciple has been
admired and recited by hundreds who have been blind to its historical fidelity and
to its subtle personalities."

543 Albion and Albanius:

an Opera, perform' d at the Queen's Theatre in Dorset Garden.
First Edition. A Fine Uncut Copy, foho, half morocco.
London, 1685. £15 15s

544 Amboyna: a Tragedy. As it is acted at the Theatre-Royal.

First Edition. Sm-aXl ^X.o, new boards. London, 167-^. £8 lOs

*** This play was written in and about the second Dutch war in 1673. It is dedi-
cated to Lord Clifford of Chudleigh, and was '' contrived and written in a month."

545 Annus Mirabilis, the Year of Wonders, M.DC.LXVI., an Historical Poem.

Also a Poem on the Happy Restoration and Return of his Late Sacred
Majesty Charles the Second. Likewise a Panegyrick on his Coronation,
together with a Poem to My Lord Chancellor.

Small 4to, original calf (rebacked). London, 1688. £4 4s

546 Britannia Rediviva: a Poem on the Birth of the Prince.

First Edition. 14 pp., folio, half morocco.

London, Printed for J. Tonson, 1688. £7 7s

547 Britannia Rediviva: A Poem on the Birth of the Prince.

First Edition. Small 4to, full mottled calf gilt by Riviere, g. e.
London, 1688. ^5 5s

*** "Written on the birth of the most ill-starred of all Princes of Wales, born in
the purple."

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Dryden (John) — continued.

548 Cleomenes, the Spartan Heroe, a Tragedy as it is Acted at the Theatre

Royal. Written by Mr. Dryden; to which is prefixed the Life of Cleo-
menes.

First Edition. 4to, new boards, leather back.

London, Printed for Jacob Tonson, 1692. £4 lOs

* * * Dryden has not deviated farther from history than a fair poetic license may
warrant. The additions he has made to the real story are chiefly the scene in which
the Spartans are nearly starved, the love of Cassandra for Cleomenes, the whole
character of Cleora, and nearly the whole of Cleanthes.

The piece is considered to be one of the most successful specimens of heroic drama
Dryden produced.

549 The Conquest of Granada by the Spaniards: In Two Parts. Acted at the

Theater-Roy alL

Both Parts First Edition. Small 4to, neiv boards, leather back.
In the Savoy, Printed by T . N . for Henry Herringman, 1672.

£18 18s

*** This Play is preceded by An Essay " Of Heroique Playes " which contains much
Shakespeare matter, his " Pericles," "Winter's Tale," ''Love's Labour Lost," and
" Measure for Measure " being specially referred to.

The two parts of the Conquest of Granada are written in rhj^me, and were very suc-
cessful. They are never flat or dull, and they have much bustle and incident, with
many good lines. Dr. Johnson gives them an extravagant eulogy. The prologue
was spoken by Nell Gwyn in a hat of the circumference of a cart-wheel : " The house
was immediately in convulsions, and the King wanted but little of being suffocated
with laughter."

550 De Arte Graphica, The Art of Painting, by C. A. Du Fresnoy, with

Reniarks, translated into English together with an Original Preface con-
taining a Parallel betwixt Painting and Poetry.

Frontispiece. FIRST EDITION. Small 4to, original calf.

London, 1695. * £3 3s

* * * This book, according to Mr. Gosse, is one of the rarest of Dryden's Works to find
in First Edition.

55 1 An Elegy on the Usurper 0. C, by the Author of Absalom and Achitophel,

pubhshed to shew the Loyalty and Integrity of the Poet.

A folio broadside folded into 8vo vol. , new boards.

London, Printed for J. Smith, 168 1. £3 3s

552 Eleonora: A Panegyrical Poem, dedicated to the Memory of the late

Countess of Abingdon.

FIRST EDITION. Small 4to, half morocco, g. e. London, 1692. £4 4s
♦" The Hoe Copy sold for £17.

MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. 117

Dryden (John) — continued.

553 An Evening's Love; or, the Mock Astrologer.

First Edition. Small 4to, full red straight- grain morocco gilt,
gilt edges. In the Savoy, 167 1. £10 lOs

*** Prefixed is a very interesting preface on the merits of the old dramatists. This
contains some important notices of Shakespeare, and of the origin of iiis plays.

554 The History of the League, Written in French by Monsieur Maimbourg.

Translated into English according to his Majesty's Command.

With engraved frontispiece.

Thick 8vo, original calf. London, 1684. "^^^

555 Juvenal (Decimus Junius) and Aulus Persius Flaccus. Satires. With

explanatory Notes at the end of each Satire. To which is Prefix' d a
Discourse concerning the Original and Progress of Satire.

Translated into English Verse by Mr. Dryden and other Eminent
Hands.

First Edition. Folio, full calf. London, Tonson, 1693. *2 2s

556 Marriage A-la-Mode. A Comedy.

First Edition. Small 4to, new boards. London, 1673. £12 12s

*• * * The serious part of this drama is apparently founded on the story of Sesostris
and Timareta, in the " Grand Cyrus."

The comic scenes in this play are executed with spirit, and contain much witty and
fashionable raillery, and the character of Melautha is pronounced by Gibber to ex-
hibit the most complete system of female foppery that could possibly be crowded into
the tortured form of a fine lady.

557 The Medall. A Satyre against Sedition. By the Author of Absalom and

Achitophel.

First Edition. Small 4to, nezu boards. London, 1682. £2 15s

558 CEdipus: a Tragedy.

First Edition. Small 4to, new boards. London, 1679. £8 8s

* * * The first and third acts were written by Dryden, who drew the machinery of the
whole ; the remainder was by Nat. Lee.

559 (Edipus. Another Edition.

Small 8vo, boards, uncut.

London, Printed for J. Tonson, 1734. £"• "iS

Il8 MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W.

Dryden (John) — continued.

560 A Poem upon the Death of his Late Highness, Oliver, Lord Protector of

England, Scotland and Ireland.

First Edition. Small 4to, bound by Riviere in full crushed morocco
extra^ g. e. London, William Wilson, 1659. £26

Fine and tall copy. The Hoe copy sold for £52 10s.

561 A Prologue (and Epilogue) written by Mr. Dryden, to a New Play call'd

The Loyal Brother, etc.

First Edition. 2\)\)., ioVio, half 7norocco. 1682. £10 10s

562 Prologue to the Duke of Guise, written by Mr. Dryden: Spoken by Mr.

Smith.

First Edition. 4 pp., folio, half levant morocco, g. e., by Riviere.

London, 1683. *"'® ""Os

*** Includes as well as the Prologue, the "Epilogue, written by the same Author.

Spoken by Mrs. Cooke," and " Another Epilogue intended to have been vSpoken to

the Play, before it was forbidden last summer, written by Mr. Dryden."

XXX '' The Duke of Guise, A Tragedy," was written by John Dryden and Nat. Lee,
its object was to serve the Duke of York, whose succession was opposed. Dryden
was severely attacked for this piece, which was considered as levelled at the then
enemies of the English Court.

563 Prologue to the King and Queen,

At the Opening of their Theatre. Spoken by Mr. Betterton, written by
Mr. Dryden. Together with the Epilogue, Spoken by Mr. Smith, written
by the same Authour.

4 pp., folio, half morocco. London, Jacob Tonson, 1683. ^^^ "^^

564 Prologue to His Royal Highness upon his first appearance at the Duke's

Theatre since his return from Scotland.

Written by Mr. Dryden, spoken by Mr. Smith.

First Edition. Printed on one side of a, folio leaf. Bound by
Riviere in half levant morocco, g. e. London, 1682. £10 lOs

* * * An exceedingly rare poetical piece by Dryden.

565 The Spanish Fryar; or, the Double Discovery.

First Edition. Small 4to, new boards. London, 168 1. £5 5s

* * * Langbaine charges the author of this play with casting a reflection on the whole

body of the clergy in the character of Dominick the Friar, and seems to imagine it
a piece of revenge practised for some opposition he met with in his attempt to take
orders. The plot of the comic parts is founded on a novel called the ^' Pilgrim,"
written by Bremond.

MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London. W. iig

Dryden (John) — continued.

566 Troilus and Gressida; or, Truth Found too Late. A Tragedy.

To which is Prefix'd, A Preface Containing the Grounds of Criti-
cism in Tragedy.

First Edition. Small 4to, new boards. London, 1679. £5 5s

* * * This is Shakespeare's Play altered by Dryden. The preface contains some highly
interesting Shakespearian matter, including some quotations from Hamlet and
Richard II. The prologue is spoken by Mr. Betterton representing the Ghost of
Shakespeare.

56/ Tyrannick Love, or The Royal Martyr. A Tragedy.

First Edition. Small 4to, half calf. London, 1670. £10 10s

*** Nell Gwyn took the part of "Valeria," daughter to Maximin. At the end of
the play Nell Gwyn in this character, lying " dead " on the Stage, the bearers come
to carry her off, she says to one of them : —

*' Hold, are you mad? You damn'd confounded dog
I am to rise and speak the Epilogue."

Curll says that Kin^ Charles II. was so captivated by the humorous manner in which
she spoke the Epilogue, that when she had done, he went behind the scenes and
carried her off that night.

568 Tyrannick Love.

Third Edition, reviewed by the Author.

Small 4to, new boards. London, 1677. 15s

569 The Vindication or the Parallel of the French Holy-League, and the Eng-
lish League and Covenant, Turn'd into a Seditious Libell against the
King and his Royal Highness, by Thomas Hunt and the Authors of the
Reflections upon the Pretended Parallel in the Play called The Duke of
Guise.

First Edition. Small 4to. Fine Copy bound by Riviere in full
-polished calf gilt, g. e. London, Frinted for Jacob Tonson, 1683. £4 4s

* * * Dryden, in this work, makes reference to Shakespeare as follows : —

'' Am I tyed in Poetry to the strict rules of History? I haue follow'd it in this Play
more closely, than suited with the Laws of the Drama, and a great Victory they
will haue, who shall discover to the World this wonderful Secret, that I haue not
observ'd the Unities of place and time ; but are they better kept in the Farce of
the Libertine destroy'd? 'Twas our common business here to draw the Parallel of
the Times, and not to make an Exact Tragedy : For this once we were resolved to
erre with honest Shakespear."

f20 MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W.

Dryden (John) — continued.

570 The Wild Gallant: a Comedy.

First Edition. Small 4to, new boards. London, 1669. £10 lOs

*** This was Dryden's first attempt in dramatic writing. The plot, as the author
confesses, is borrowed. It was first acted in February, 1663. He introduces some
most extraordinary matter in this comedy.

571 Walsh (William). A Dialogue Concerning Women, being a Defence of

the Sex. Written to Eugenia. With Preface by Dryden.

First Edition. Small 8vo, old calf (jebacked). London, 1691. £3 3s

572 Works. In Four Volumes.

The Collected Edition of Dryden's Works, Composed of the
pieces as published separately, bound together and issued with a General
Title-page, each piece, with one exception, having its own title-page and
separate pagination.

4 vols., small 4to, original calf. £31 lOs

Comprising : —

Vol. I. Of Dramatic Poesie. An Essay. 1693.
The Wild Gallant. A Comedy. 1694.
The Rival-Ladies. A Tragi-Comedy. 1693.
The Indian Emperour : of the Conquest of Mexico. 1694.
Secret Love: or, The Maiden Queen. 1691.
Sir Martin Marr-All : or, The Feign'd Innocence. 1697.
The Tempest: or, The Enchanted Island. 1695.
An Evening's Love : or, The Mock-Astrologer. 1691.
Tyrannick Love : or, The Royal Martyr. 1695.

The Conquest of Granada by the Spaniards. In Two Parts. Fifth Edi-
tion. 1695.

Vol. II. Marriage A-la-Mode. A Comedy. 1691.

The Assignation : or, Love in a Nunnery. 1692.

Amboyna. A Tragedy. 1691.

The State of Innocence, and Fall of Man. 1695.

Aureng-Zebe. A Tragedy. 1694.

All for Love : or, The World Well Lost. 1692.

The King Keeper: or, Mr. Limberham. 1690.

Oedipus. A Tragedy. 1696.

Troilus and Cressida : or, Truth Found Too Late. 1695.

The Spanish Fryar : or, The Double Discovery. 1690.

MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. I3r

Dryden (John) — continued.

Vol. III. The Duke of Guise. A Tragedy. 1687.

The Vindication : or, The Parallel of the French Holy-League, etc. 1683.

Albion and Albanius. An Opera. 1691.

Don Sebastian, King of Portugal. A Tragedy. 1692.

Amphitryon : or. The Two Sofia's. A Comedy. 1694.

King Arthur: or, The British Worthy. First Edition. 1691.

Cleomenes, the Spartan Heroe. First Edition, 2nd Issue. 1692.

Love Triumphant : or. Nature will Prevail. First Edition. 1694.

Vol. IV. A Poem upon the Death of Oliver Cromwell. 1659.

Annus Mirabilis. The Year of Wonders, an Historical Poem. Also a Poem

on the Happv Restoration and Return of His Late Sacred Majesty Charles

the Second, etc. 1688.
Astrea Redux. A Poem on the Happy Restoration and Return of his Sacred

Majesty Charles the Second. 1688.
To His Sacred Majesty. A Panegyrick on his Coronation, 1688.
To My Lord Chancellor Presented on New-years-day. 1688.
Mac Flecknoe. (Without separate title-page.)
Absalom and Achitophel. A Poem. 1692.
The Medal. A Satyre against Sedition. 1692.
Religio Laici : or, A Layman's Faith. 1683.
Threnodia Augustalis, A Funeral-Pindarique Poem Sacred to the Happy

Memory of King Charles II. 1685.
The Hind and the Panther. A Poem. In Three Parts. 1687.
Britannia Rediviva. A Poem on the Birth of the Prince. 1688.
Eleonora. A Panegyrical Poem. First Edition. 1692.

573 Comedies, Tragedies and Operas.

With finely engraved portrait by Edelinck after Kneller.
First Collected Edition. Large Paper Copy. 2 vols., folio,
original calf . London ^ 1701. £4 4s

574 A Collection of his Writings.

Comprising Original Poems and Translations. 2 vols. 1743- —
Dramatick Works. Portrait and plates. 6 vols. 1762. — Miscellaneous
Works. 4 vols. 1767. — Works of Virgil. Plates. 4 vols. 1792. —
Satyrs of Juvenalis and Persius. 1754. — Fables. 1774.

Together 18 vols., i2mo, half calf gilt. London, V. Y. £3 15s

575 DU BARTUS. His Deuine Weekes and Workes translated by Josuah
Sylvester, now fourthly corr : and augm : Engraved title by Hole.
Small thick 410, contejnporary full morocco gilt.
London, 1613. £3 lOs

* * * With Commendatory Verses by Ben Jonson, Saml. Daniel, J. Hall, J. Davies of
Hereford, and others.

122 MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W.

576 DUELLING. Cursory Reflections on the Single Combat or Modern Duel.

4to, boards, uncut. London, '^77?>- "^^S

" After the Old and most Surprising Way of Macbeth."

577 DUFFET (Thomas). The Empress of Morocco, a Farce, acted by his

Majesties Servants {with the) Epilogue being a New Fancy after the old
and most surprising way of Macbeth performed with new and costly
Machines, which were invented and managed by the most ingenious
operator Mr. Henry Wright.

First Edition, with the very rare engraved Frontispiece of Griffin
the Actor, as Queen Mother.

Small 4to, vellum. London, 1674. £25

* * * Exceedingly Rare — described in Lee's Shakespeareana, No. 273, where 1^ pages

are occupied with the description of the Epilogue, the sub-title of which is " AN
EPILOGUE SPOKEN BY HECCATE AND THE THREE WITCHES ACCORDING
TO THE FAMOUS MODE OF MACBETH." In the text of the Epilogue some of
Shakespeare's words are used with slight change and burlesqued.

578 DUNTON (John). A True Journall of the Sally Fleet. With the Pro-

ceedings of the Voyage. With a List of Sally Captives, Names, and
the Places where they dwell.

Small 4to, boards. London, 1637. £1 Is

The " Description of the three townes in a card " is missing.

579 D'URFEY (Thomas). Albion's Blessing. A Poem panegyrical on his Sacred

Majesty King William III., and On his happy Return and the Pub-
lishing the late Glorious Peace.

First Edition. Folio, new boards. London, 1698. £2 2s

580 The Malecontent; a Satyr: Being the Sequel of the Progress of

Honesty, or a view of Court and City.

First Edition. Foho, new boards. Londdn, 1684. £3 10s

581 ^ — The Progress of Honesty; or, a View of a Court and City. A

Pindarique Poem. By T. D.

First Edition. ¥o\\o, half morocco. London, 16Z1. £2 10s

582 The Royalist: A Comedy.

First Edition. Small 4to, half calf. London, 1682. £3 10s

* ♦ * This play met with good success. It contains, with other songs, one by Frances

Quarles (from his '* Shepherd's Oracles. ">

MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. 123

D'Urfey (Thomas) — continued.

583 Wit and Mirth; or, Pills to Purge Melancholy.

Being a Collection of the best Merry Ballads and Songs, Old and

New. Fitted to all Humours, having each their proper Tune for either

Voice, or Instrument; most of the Songs being new set. Portrait.

6 vols., small 8vo. Very fine copy in the original calf gilt.

London, 1719-20. £18 18s

*** The Original Issue of the Most Complete Edition of this famous collection of

Songs. The first two volumes are entirely filled with D'Urfey' s own Songs with a

few of his poems and prologues at the end. Sir Richard Steele in the Guardian

wrote concerning the collection: "A judicious author some years since published a

collection of sonnets, which he very successfully called 'Pills to purge Melancholy.'

I cannot sufficiently admire the facetious title of these volumes, and must censure

the world of ingratitude, while they are so negligent in rewarding the jocose labours

of my friend Mr. D'Urfey, who was so large a contributor to this treatise, and to

whose humorous productions so many rural squires in the remotest parts of this

island are obliged for the dignity and state which corpulency gives them. The story

of the sick man's breaking an imposthume by a sudden fit of laughter, is too well

known to need a recital. It is my opinion, that the above pills would be extremely

proper to be taken with asses' milk, and mightily contribute towards the renewing

and restoring decayed lungs."

584 DYALOGE. A Proper Dyaloge betwene a Gentillman and a Husbandman

eche complaynyge to other their miserable calamite through the ambicion
of Clergye, with a Compendious Olde Treatyse shewynge howe that we
ought to have the Scripture in Englysshe. Hans Luft. 1530.

Reproduced in facsimile with an Introduction by Francis Fry,
F.S.A.

Post 8vo, half red 7norocco. London, 1863. £2 2a

One of a few copies printed entirely on vellum.

585 DYER (John). Poems; viz., Grongar Hill; The Rums of Rome; The Fleece,

in four books. With plates.

Small 8vo, original calf. London, 1761. 10s 6d

586 D. (J.). The Knave in Graine, New Vampt. A witty Comedy, acted at

the For time many dayes together with great applause, written by J. D.
Gent.

First Edition. Small 4to, limp vellum. London, 1640. £15 15s

587 EDMONDS (Clement). Commentaries of his Wars in Gaih'a, and the

Civil Wars betwixt him and Pompey. Translated into English, with
many excellent and Judicious Observations thereupon. As also the Art
of our Modern Training, together with the Life of Cassar, by Clement
Edmonds.

Full-length portrait, plate of medals, and numerous plans of battles.

Folio, original calf {rebacked). London, 16'/'/. £1 Is

I2!4 MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W.

588 EDUCATION. Todd (J). The School-Boy and Young Gentleman's

Assistant, being a Plan of Education.

Containing the Sentiments of the best Authors under these following
Heads, viz.. Health, Manners, Religion, and Learning.

Small 8vo, original calf.

Edinburgh^ Printed in the Y ear 1748. £5 15s

*** A very rare little volume. Dedicated to James, Duke of Hamilton.

589 EIKON BASILIKE. The Pourtraioture of His Sacred Majesty King

Charles II. With his Reasons for turning Roman Catholick; published
by K. James. Found in the Strong Box.
Portrait of the King as frontispiece.

Small 8vo, old calf. Printed in the Year 1694. £1 5s

* * * This Edition was privately printed.

590 ELIZABETH (Queen). D'Ewes (Sir Simonds). The Journals of all the

Parliaments during the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, both of the House of
Lords and House of Commons. Revised and published by Paul Bowes.

' Frontispiece of Queen Elizabeth in Parliament.

Folio, full russia gilt. London^ 1682. £2 5s

591 Digges (Sir Dudly). The Compleat Ambassador, or Two Treaties

of the intended Marriage of Queen Elizabeth of Glorious Memory, com-
prised in Letters of Negotiation of Sir Francis Walsingham her Resi-
dent in France, together with the Answers of the Lord Burleigh, the
Earl of Leicester, Sir Thos. Smith and others.

Engraved Frontispiece by Faithorne of the Queen seated in State
supported by Lord Burleigh and Sir F. Walsingham.

YoliOf original calf . London^ 1655. £1 10s

592 Forbes (P.). A Full View of the Public Transactions in the Reign

of Q. Elizabeth.

In a series of Letters and Papers of State written by herself and her
principal Ministers and by the foreign Princes and Ministers with whom
she had Negotiations, published from original and authentic Manuscripts
in the Paper Office, Cottonian Library, and other public and private
Repositories at home and abroad.

Numerous facsimiles of autographs of eminent persons.

2 vols., folio, full russia extra, full gilt backs y yellow edges.

London, IT A^o. Very fine copy. £1 15s

MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. i«5

Elizabeth (Queen) — continued.

5Q3 Speeches delivered to Queen Elizabeth on her visit to Giles

Brydges, Lord Chandos, at Sudeley Castle in Gloucestershire; with a
Preface by Sir Egerton Brydges. Portrait of Giles Brydges.

Large Paper Copy. Small folio, full calf, rebacked, g. e.

Privately Printed at the fress of the Priory, 18 15. £1 2s 6d

Fore-edge Painting.

594 ELLIS (George). Specimens of the Early English Poets.

Small 8vo. Bound in etruscan calf, gold border on sides, gilt back.
A fine example of fainted edges, having on the fore-edge under the gold
a water-colour drawing of an English landscape, with jnansion in back-
ground. London, 1790. £21

595 ELYOT (Sir Thomas). The Boke Named The Governour devised by Sir

Thomas Elyot Knyght.

Black Letter, Small Svo, old half vellum gilt. London, 1557. £3 10s

596 EMBLEMS, Emblems for the Entertainment and Improvement of Youth;

containing hieroglyphical and Enigmatical devices, relating to all Parts
and Stations of Life. Together with explanations and proverbs in
French, Spanish, Italian, and Latin, alluding to them, and translated
into English. With engraved frontispiece and 62 curious woodcuts.

Svo, original calf . London, circa 1755. 12s 6d

597 Tolson (P.). Hermathenae, or, Moral Emblems and Ethnick

Tables. With explanatory notes.

Engraved title and 60 finely engraved emblematical illustrations.

Svo, original calf. Circa 1720. 15s

* * * Vol. I. all published.

59S ENGLAND. A Journey to England, with some Account of the Mannerb
and Customs of that Nation. Written at the Command of a Nobleman
in France. Made in English.
Svo, half morocco.
London, Printed and Sold by A. Baldwin, 1700. 10s 6d

* * * A curious and early Account of Old English Ale and Alehouses, Bowling Greens,
Hyde Park, 111 Manners of the People, Ladies who go to Taverns, Spring Gardens, etc.

126 MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London. W.

599 EPICURUS'S Morals, collected partly out of his owne Greek Text^ in

Diogenes Laertius, and partly out of the Rhapsodies of Marcus
Antoninus, Plutarch, Cicero, & Seneca. And faithfully Englished.

With portrait. Small 4to, full calf. London, 1656. £1 5s

600 ERASMUS. L'Estrange (Sir Roger). Twenty Two Select Colloquies out

of Erasmus Roterodamus; pleasantly representing several superstitious
Levities that were crept into the Church of Rome in his days.

With engraved -portrait.

8vo, old calf {rebacked). London, 1699. 6s

601 The Paraphrase of Erasmus upon the Newe Testament.

Woodcut titles.

First Edition. 2 vols., small folio, handsomely bound by Riviere
in full crushed 7norocco extra, full gilt backs, gilt borders on sides, with
corner and centre pieces, g. e.

London, E. Whitchurche, 1548-9. £26

* * * This commentary was appointed by public authority to be placed in all our
churches. The first volume was edited by Nicholas Udall, and the second by
Coverdale, John Olde, and Leonard Coxe, The Paraphrase upon the Revelation was
written by Leo Jude, and translated by Edmonde Allen. Vol. I. has prefixed to the
whole, a preface "Unto the Kynges Maiestee " ; another "To the Jentill christian
reader " ; and an epistle dedicatory " To the moste vertuous Ladie Queue Katherine
dowager." Each of them by Nicholas Udall. Before S. Mark, S. Luke, S. John, and
the Acts of the Apostles, are other dedications to the Queen Dowager, the first by
Thos. Key, the others by Nich. Udall. The leaves of each of these books are num-
bered separately. Vol. II. begins with a dedication to the King, by " Myles Couer-
dall," an address to the Christian by John Olde. The Catholic epistles are dedicated
to Lady Anne Dutchess of Somerset. The leaves of the epistles, etc., are numbered
separately.

602 ETON. Bentham (Dr. Edward). Elogium Famae Inserviens Jacoi Eton-

ensis, sive Gigantis; or, the Praises of Jack of Eton, commonly called
Jack the Giant, collected into Latin and English Metre after the Manner
of Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, John Burton, and others, etc., by
a Master of Arts.

8vo, half calf, uncut, t. e. g. Oxford, S. Parker, 1750. £1 4s

603 Perse (WiUiam). A Sermon Preached at the Anniversary Meeting

of the Eton-Scholars, At St. Mary le Bow, on Decemb. the 6. 168 1.

38 pp., small 4to, new boards. London, 1682. 18s

MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. 127

604 ETON VERSES (Manuscript). Way (L). Poemata Juvenilia Manu-

scripta in quatuor tomos distributa Studio atq opera Ludovici Way,
Etonae.

A Collection of upwards of 60 productions of various contributors,
in the autograph of Lewis Way. 188 pp., with index.

Small 4to, original calf neaL 1786. £1 lOs

605 ESQUEMELING (John). Bucaniers of America: or, a True Account of

the Most Remarkable Assaults Committed of late Years upon the Coasts
of The West Indies, By the Bucaniers of Jamaica and Tortuga, Both
English and French. Wherein are contained more especially, The
unparallel'd Exploits of Sir Henry Morgan, our English Jamaican
Hero, who sack'd Puerto Velo, burnt Panama, &c.

Written originally in Dutch, by John Esquemeling, one of the
Bucaniers, who was present at those Tragedies.

The Second Edition, Corrected, and Inlarged with two Additional
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and Endes of the Prophets, Apostles and 70 Disciples. All which
authors are faithfully translated out of the Greek tongue and now per-
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Last of all herein is contained a briefe chronographie collected by
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throughout all the Histories.

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608 The Ancient Ecclesiastical Histories. Another Edition.

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610 EVELYN (John). A Character of England as it was lately presented in

a letter to a Noble Man of France.

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Plate XI.

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6 1 1 Kalendarium Hortense: or the Gard'ners Ahnanac, directing what

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5i2 Of Gardens. Four Books (in Verse). First written in Latine

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514 Sylva: or, a Discourse of Forest-Trees, and the Propagation of

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617 — The History of the Three late famous impostors,

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Ottoman Family, but in truth, a Valachian Counterfeit, & the last, the
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618 — An Idea of the Perfection of Painting demonstrated from the

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619 FACETIAE. Collection of twelve Curious Tracts. Comprising: —

An Answer to a Whimsical Pamphlet, call'd The Character of Sir
John Edgar, etc. Written by Sir John Edgar's Baker, mention'd in the
3d Theatre. London, 1720.

Whipping-Tom; or, A Rod for a Proud Lady, etc. Fifth Edition.
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A Dedication to a Great Man Concerning Dedications, etc. The
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Bickerstaff's Aesop; or. The Humours of the Times, Digested into
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Canary-Birds Naturaliz'd in Utopia. A Canto. London, N.D.

The Art of Beauty: A Poem. Humbly address'd to the Oxford
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The Town Assemblies. A Satyr. L^ondon, 1717.

The Island of Content : or, a New Paradise Discovered. London,
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The Court Miscellany, in Prose and Verse. London, 17 19.
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The Rise and Progress of the Rebellion in Scotland, against King
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622 The Shipwreck, a Poem, in Three Cantos.

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623 [FALKLAND (Lord)]. History of the Life, Reign, and Death of

Edward II., King of England. With the Rise and Fall of his great
Favourites, Gaveston and the Spencers. Fine portrait.

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Shakespeare's '' Seven Ages of Man."
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624 FARNABY (Thos.). Florilegius Epigrammatum Graeoorum, Eorumque

Latius Versu a Variis Redditorum,

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London, F . Kyngston, 1629. £14 14s

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625 FARREN (Miss, Countess of Derby). The Testimony of Tmth to Exalted

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626 FEATLEY (Daniel). Anoilla Pietatis; or, the Hand-Maid to Private Devo-

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Hymnes and Prayers. Fitted for the Daies of the Weeke, Feasts, Fasts
of the Church.

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627 FENCING. Hope (Sir VV). The Compleat Fencing-Master: In which is

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or others, with Blunts or Sharps, together with Directions how to Behave
in Single Combat on Horse-back. Illustrated with copperplates.

Small 8vo, full russia. London, 17 10. £2 5s

628 A New, Short, and Easy Method of Fencing; or. The Art

of the Broad and Small-Sword Rectified and Compendiz'd. Wherein
the Practice of the Two Weapons, is reduced to so Few and General
Rules, that any Person of .an indifferent capacity, and ordinary Agility
of Body, may in a very short time attain to, not only a sufficient Know-
ledge of the Theory of this Art, but also to a considerable Adroitness
in Practice.

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629 FENELON (Archbishop). Instructions for the Education of Daughters.

Translated from the French and revised by George Hickes.

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630 FENTON (E.). Mariamne, a Tragedy acted at the Theatre Royal in

Lincolns-Inn-Fields.

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The Unhappy Loves of Herod and Mariamne, introductory to Mr. Fen-
ton's New Tragedy of that Name.

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Lectures on Select Subjects in Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Pneumatics,
and Optics, with the use of the Globes and the Art of DiaUing.

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London^ 1764.

Supplement to the above.

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Priestley (Joseph, LL.D., F.R.S.). A Familiar Introduction to the Study
of Electricity.

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632 FERGUSSON (Robert) Poems.

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633 FIELDING (Henry) Amelia.

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London, 17^2. £7 lOs

*** << Of all his novels, it leaves the j&nest impression of quiet, domestic delight, of
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spring or the glowing summer of his genius, but its autumnal mellowness and miti-
gated sunshine, with something of the thoughtfulness befitting the season. Amelia
herself, the wife and mother, arrayed in all matronly graces, with her rosy children
about her, is a picture of womanly gentleness and beauty, and unostentatious hero-
ism, such as never leaves the imagination in which it has once found a place."

634 A Clear State of the Case of Elizabeth Canning,

who hath sworn that she was robbed and almost starved to Death by a
Gang of Gipsies and other villains in January last, for which one Mary
Squire now lies under Sentence of Death.

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635 Examples of the Interposition of Providence in the Detection and

Punishment of Murder, containing above thirty Cases, in which this
dreadful Crime has been brought to Light.

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Fielding (Henry) — continued.

636 Dramatic Works.

In three volumes. 8vo.

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Love in several Masques. A Comedy.
First Edition. London, 1728.

The Author's Farce : With a Puppet-
Show, Call'd The Pleasures of the
Town. Third Edition. London, 1750.

The Coffee-House Politician. First Edi-
tion. London, 1730.

The Tragedy of Tragedies : or The Life
and,^ Death of Tom Thumb the Great.
Fourth Edition. London, 1751.

The Letter-Writers : Or, A New Way to
Keep a Wife at Home. First Edition.
London, 1750.

The Grub-Street Opera. To which is
added. The Masquerade. A Poem.
1728. First Edition. London, 1731.

An Old Man taught Wisdom : or. The
Virgin Unmasked. A Farce. The
Fourth Edition. London, 1749.

The Universal Gallant. First Edition.
London, 1735.

Pasquin. A Dramatick Satire on the
Times : Being the Rehearsal of Two
Plays, viz., A Comedy call'd THE
ELECTION: and a Tragedy call'd
THE LIFE AND DEATH OF COM-
MON SENSE. The Third Edition.
London, 1754.

The Lottery. A Farce. The Fourth Edi-
tion. London, 1748.

The Temple Beau. A Comedy. First
Edition. London, 1730.

The Modern Husband. A Comedy. The
Second Edition. London, 1732.

The Mock Doctor : or, The Dumb Lady
Cur'd. A Comedy. The Fourth Edi-
tion, with additional Songs and altera-
tions. London, 1753.

The Co vent-Garden Tragedy. First Edi-
tion. London, 1754.

The Debeauchees : or. The Jesuit Caught,
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The Miser. A Comedy. Third Edition.
London, 1754.

The Intriguing Chambermaid. First
Edition. London, 1750.

Don Quixote in England. A Comedy.
First Edition. London, 1754.

The Historical Register, For the Year
1736. As it is Acted at the New Theatre
in the Hay-Market, To which is added
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DICE HISS'D, Or, A Word to the
Wise. First Edition. London, 1741.

Tumble-Down Dick : Or, Phaeton in the
Suds. First Edition. London, 1744.

Miss Lucy in Town. A Sequel to the
Virgin Unmasqued. A Farce : With
Songs. First Edition. London, 1742.

637 The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews, and of his

Friend Mr. Abraham Adams, written in imitation of the Manner of
Cervantes, Author of Don Quixote,

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calf. London, 1742. £28

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prise, wealth, liberality. What are London and England in the pictures of Hogarth
and the pages of Fielding? * No better than they should be,' certainly: full of
poverty, low vice, coarse indulgence, and sheer brutality, relieved now and then by
exhibitions of good sense, courage, and love of learning. Parson Adams, the simple-
minded clergyman in * Joseph Andrews,' who goes up to London to sell his sermons
to some publisher and meets on the way to and from the country with as many
adventures as Don Quixote himself, is a literary creation of unsurpassed merit ;
nor are the personages that surround him, thougli less interesting, drawn with less
ability." — Thomas Arnold.

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Fielding (Henry) — continued.

638 The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews.

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539 _ Miscellanies.

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London, 1743. £18 18s

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640 A Proposal for Making an Effectual Provision for the Poor,

for Amending their Morals, and for rendering them useful Members of
the Society.

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London, 1753. £9 9s

* * * This is a very elaborate scheme for the erection of a county poor-house.
Fielding's remarks upon the operations of the poor-laws show both knowledge and
intelligent reflection. — D.N.B.

641 A Proposal for Making an Effectual Provision for the Poor.

Another Copy of the FIRST EDITION.

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642 A True State of the Case of Bosavern Penlez, who suffered on

Account of the late Riot in the Strand, in which the Law regarding thes.e
offences, and the Statue of George the First, commonly called the Riot
Act, are fully considered.

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London, A. Millar, 1749. Fine Copy. £2 15s

643 FIELDING (Sir John). A Plan for Preventing Robberies within twenty

miles of London, with an Account of the Rise and Estabhshment of the
real Thief takers. To which is added Advice to Pawnbrokers, Stable-
keepers and PubHcans.

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644 [FIELDING (Sarah).] The Adventures of David Simple; containing An

Account of his Travels Through the Cities of London and Westminster,
in the Search of a Real Friend. With a Preface by Henry Fielding.

First Edition. 2 vols. 1744.

Familiar Letters between the Principal Characters in David Simple, and
Some others. A Sequel to his Adventures. To which is added, A
Vision. 2 vols. 1752.

The Adventures of David Simple. Volume the last, in which his History
is concluded. 1753-

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645 The Adventures of David Simple.

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646 Familiar Letters between the Principal Characters in Oavid

Simple, and Some others. To which is added, A Vision.

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First Fire Insurance Prospectus.

647 FIRE INSURANCE, An Enquiry, Whether it be the Interest of the City

to insure Houses from Fire; and whether the Insured may expect any
advantage thereby, more than from the Insurance-Ofhce already Setled.

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648 FLAMING ISLANDS (The), or a full description and Account of the

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Fyal (Fayal) in Threescore and Ten, several places. As also in some
other neighbouring Islands.

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649 FLATMAN (Thomas). On the Death of our late Sovereign Lord King

Charles II. of. Blessed Memory. A Pindarique Ode.

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650 On the Death of the illustrious Prince Rupert; a Pindarique Ode.

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Plate XI 11

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Plate XIV.

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65 1 A Pindarique Ode on the Death of the Right Honourable Thomas

Earl of Ossory.

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* * * It is said that the Duke of Ormonde on receiving this Ode on tlie death of his
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652 Poems and Songs.

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653 A Song for St. Caecilia's Day, Nov. 22, 1686. Written by Mr.

Tho. Flatman : And Composed by Mr. Isaac Blackwell.

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654 FLAYELL (John). Husbandry Spiritualized; or, The Heavenly Use of

Earthly Things. Consisting of many Pleasant Observations, Pertinent
Apphcations, and serious Reflections, and each Chapter concluded with
a Divine and suitable Poem.

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655 FLEMING (A.). The Footepath to Felioitie, whiche everie Christian must

walk in.

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covered with gold tooling.

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656 FLETCHER (Giles). Christs Victorie and Triumph in Heaven and Earth,

over and after Death; in verse.

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Cambridge, 1632. £1 lOs

657 FLETCHER (John). The Elder Brother. A Comedie, acted at the Blacke

Friers, by his Maiesties Servants.

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658 FLETCHER (Phineas). The Locusts; or, Apollyomsts.

Locustae

vel

Pietas Je-

suitica

Per

Phineam Fletcher

CoUegii Regalis

Cantabrigiae

Apud Thomam & Joannem Bucke

celeberrimae Academiae Typographos.

Anno Dom. MDCXXVII.

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*^*THIS IS FLETCHER'S FIRST BOOK, AND MILTON HAS CONFESSED
THAT TO IT HE OWED HIS IMMORTAL WORK " PARADISE LOST."

In this poem Fletcher uses the Fall of Lucifer as a device to explain the strength
of the Church of Rome, whose machinations are made to culminate in the Gun-
powder Plot. He Avrites with the bitterness that might be expected from an Engush
clergj'man of the time.

Fletcher Avas steeped in Spenser's poetry, and carried on the Spensarian tradition. In
his work is to be found Spenser's diffuseness, his use of allegory, many variants of
his stanza and the echo, often a beautiful echo, of his music. Moreover, Milton
knew the work of Fletcher as intimately as he, or Fletcher, knew the work of Spen-
ser. And so one of the prettiest and most intricate problems that is to be found in
literature arises on the question of what is known as influence. The best example
of the affinity between the work of Milton and the work of Phineas Fletcher is to be
found in a comparison between the way in which Milton treats that stock episode
of the miracle play, the Fall of Lucifer, and the way in which Fletcher treats it.
In The Apollyonists, the Fall of Lucifer is a prelude to an onslaught upon the
Jesuits : the great opening is narrowed to the confines of religious hatred. But the
sympathy which Milton could not but feel for the rebel transformed the figure of
Satan from a fine conception to one of immortal grandeilr. Milton humanised the
devil, Fletcher diabolised the priest. Their meeting-point is found in Fletcher's
lines —

"To be in heaven the second he disdaines :

So now the first in hell and flames he raignes,

Crown'd once with joy and light: crown'd now with fire and paines."

and in the Miltonic —

"■ Better to reign in hell than serve in Heav'n."

659 F LLOYD (Thomas). Tartarian Tales; or, A Thousand and One Quarters

of Hours. Written in French by the celebrated Mr. Guelletee; the whole
now for the first Time translated into English by Thomas Flloyd.

i2mo, full calf gilt (rebacked). London, 1759. 6s

MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London. W. 139

660 FLORIO (John). Vocabolario Italiano and Inglese, A Dictionary Italian

and English, formerly compiled by John Florio, and since his last
edition Anno 161 1, augmented by himselfe in his life time, with many
thousand words, and Thuscan phrases, now most diligently revised,
corrected and compared, with La Crusca, and other approved Diction-
aries, whereunto is added A Dictionary English and Italian, with
severall proverbs and Instructions for the speedy attaining to the Italian
Tongue, never before published, by Geo. Torriano.

Thick folio, original calf. London^ 1659. £2 2s

661 FOOTE (Samuel). Dramatic Works.

Frontispiece. FIRST COLLECTED EDITION. 4 vols., 8vo, full calf.
London, 178 1. £1 16s

Contains the First Issue of several of the Plays.

662 FORTUNE TELLING. Flamstead (Dr.) and Mr. Partridge. New Fortune-

Book; containing A Treatise of Moles; and their various Significations
in all parts of the human body, explained. New-Invented method of
knowing one's fortune by a pack of cards. The art of Palmestry,
Physiognomy and the reading of dreams.

Frontispiece, containing two ctirious woodcuts of an astrologer, and
a card -party, also 7nany woodcuts in the text.

i6mo, full morocco. London, 1729. £2 2s

4t** Several headlines and margins slightly cut into. Scarce and curious.

663 FOUGASSES (Thomas De). The Generall Historie of the Magnificent

State of Venice. From the First Foundation thereof untill this Present.
Collected by Thomas de Fougasses; Englished by W. Shute.

First Edition. . Thick folio, full calf (rebacked).

London, 1612. £8 lOs

*** The most reliable of the early histories of Venice. p ,. . ,,

Contains valuable illustrations of Shakespeare's ''Merchant of \enice and
"Othello."

664 FOX (George), STUBS (John) and FURLEY (Benjamin). A Battle-Door

for Teachers and Professors to learn Singular & Plural; wherein is
shewed forth by Grammar, or Scripture Examples, how several Nations
and People have made a distinction between Singular and Plural.

Small folio, full brown morocco gilt. London, 1660. £8 88

I40 MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W.

The First Edition.

665 FOXE (John). Book of Martyrs. Rerum in Ecclesia Gestarum, quae

postremis et periculosis his temporibus evenerunt, maximarumque, per
Europam Persecutionum, ac Sanctorum Dei Martyrum, ceterarumque
rerum si quae insignioris exempH sint, per Regna et Nationes Commen-
tarii. PARS PRIMA, in qua primum de rebus per Angham et Scotiam
gestis, atque in primis de horrenda, sub Maria nuper Regina, persecu-
tione, narratio continetur. Basileae^ 1559-

Pars Secunda, quum autem in prima parte saltem Anghae et Scotiae,
a D. Joanne Foxo Anglo, superioribus annis sint annotatae, hac demum
secunda nunc primum res memorabiles Martyrum per Germaniam.
GaUiam, et Italiam a Joannis Hussi tempore ad praesentem 1563 annum
gestae, copiosissime quam uspiam aHbi continentur. Authore Heinrico
Pantaleone. 1563.

2 vols, in I, folio, full brozvn inorocco^ old style, gilt leaves. £10 lOs

*** This is the Editio Princeps of John Foxe's Martyrology, It embodies matter
not included in the earliest English edition of 1563, and of some pieces it is the
only depository. The long-lost treatise, " De Coena Domini," of Bishop Hooper,
the MS. of which he delivered to his wife the night before he suffered, with instruc-
tions to forward it to Bullinger to be printed at Basle, was here discovered, and
thence it was published in the second volume of the Author's Remains by the Parker
Society. The second is the continuation, which, as Foxe gave no signs of proceeding
with his work, Pantaleo was urged to undertake.

The publisher, Oporinus, was prohibited by the Pope from publishing any further
books.

666 FRANCIS (Philip). Eugenia: a Tragedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre-

Royal, Drury-Lane.

First Edition. 8vo, new boards. London, 1752. 15s

*** The part of Mercour in this play is taken by David Garrick, who also wrote and
spoke the Prologue.

Shakespeare's Legal Knowledge.

667 FRAUNGE (Abraham). The Lawiers Logike, exemplifying the praecepts

of Logike by the practise of the common Lawe.

First Edition, with the rare folding .leaf .

Small 4to, original vellum. London, 1588.' £15 15s

An exceedingly tall copy in its original binding. There is a slight stain on the extreme
lower margin.

A book of great interest to the Shakespearian student, as from it Shakespeare is
believed to have obtained his legal knowledge. Abraham Fraunce was educated at
St. John's Coll., Cambridge, at the expense of Sir Philip Sidney. Most of his works
are in verse, and his '' Lawyer's Logick " is partly in poetry. George Peele describes
him as "A peerless sweet translator of our time."

- " * The book is dedicated to the Earl of Pembroke in rhymed hexameters. Quota-
tions from English and Latin Poets appear in the Text, and Fraunce appends
Virgil's second eclogue in the Original and in his own hexametrical transhition
(afterwards reprinted at the end of the *' Ivy church ") as well as analysis of the
Earl of Northumberland's case and of Stanford's Crown Pleas.

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668 FREEMAN (Mark). The Downfall of Bribery; or, the Honest Men of

Taunton, a new Ballad Opera as it was lately performed by a Company
of Players at a certain noted Inn at Taunton in Somersetshire.

First Edition. 8vo, uncut. London (1733). 10s 6cl

669 FREEMASONRY. Collection of 11 Almanacks for 1776, the first being

The Free-Mason's Calendar : or, an Almanac, for the Year of Christ
1776, containing besides an accurate and useful Calendar of all Remark-
able Occurrences for the Year, many useful and curious Particulars
relating to Masonry.

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*** The remaining Almanacks are: The Gentlemans Diary; The Ladies' Diary: A
Loyal Almanack; Merlinus Liberatus ; Parker's Ephenieris ; The English Apollo;
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Coelestial Atlas.

6;o The Constitutions of the Antient and Honourable Fraternity of

Free and Accepted Masons, containing their History, Charges, Regula-
tions, &c. Collected and Digested, by Order of the GRAND LODGE,
from their old Records, faithful Traditions, and Lodge-Books, for the
Use of the Lodges, By James Anderson, D.D., and carefully Revised,
Continued, and Enlarged, By JOHN Entick, M.A.

A New Edition, with Alterations and Additions, By a Committee
appointed by the Grand Lodge.

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blue morocco elaborately tooled in gold, with floral sprays, etc., gilt
leaves.

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Year of Masonry 5767. ^31 lOs

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671 Dodd (WiUiam). An Oration delivered at the Dedication of Free-
Masons' Hall, Great Queen-Street, Lincoln's Inn-Fields, on Thursday,
May 23, 1776.

Small 4to, nezu boards. London, 1776. £1 16s

672 Oliver (George). The Star in the East, shewing the Analogy

which exists between the Lectures of Freemasonry, the mechanism of
initiation into its Mysteries, and the Christian Religion.

i2mo, half calf. London, 1825. 5s

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^]^ FROISSART. An Epitome of Frossard: or A Summane Collection of the
most memorable Histories contained in his Chronicle, chiefly concerning
the State of England and France. Wherein 1 he famous Warres and
Conquests of King Edward the third, with the honourable atchieve-
ments of the Blacke Prince, and other his ^onnes, both in Fraunce,
Spaine, and Portugall, are compendiously described. Entermixed with
other historicall occurrents of those times, very worthy, and profitable
to be had in remembrance : Compiled in Latin by John Sleydane, and
translated into English, by P. Golding.

Small 4to, full calf gilt, g. e. London, 1608. £2 lOs

674 FROST FAIR. Wonderful News from the River of Thames.

Folio, new boards. London, Printed on the Frozen-Thames, 1683.

£1 5s

* * * The music and words of a song written at the time of the Great Frost, when the
Thames was completely frozen over, and dealing with the Fair erected on the ice.

675 FULLER (Thomas). The Cause and Cure of a Wounded Conscience.

First Edition. i2mo, original calf. London, 1647. £1 5s

676 Historie of the Holie Warre.

Curious engraved title and folding map of Palestine by W.
Marshall.

Small folio, original calf. Cambridge, 1640. £1 4s

677 The History of the Worthies of England, Who for Parts and

Learning have been eminent in the several Counties. Together with An
Historical Narrative of the Native Commodities and Rarities in each
County. Portrait engraved by Loggan, and the Index at end.

First Edition. Folio, full calf, morocco back, g. e.

London, Printed by F. G. W . L. and W . G. for Thomas Williams,
1662. £6 6s

* * * On page 126 is found an interesting notice of Shakespeare. This is highly
valuable as being the first biographical notice of the poet. The date of Shakespeare's
death is left blank, and Halliwell-Phillipps remarks that Fuller " was not even at
the pains to ascertain the year of the poet's decease."

'' William Shakespeare was Iborn at Stratford-on-Avon in this county, in whom three
eminent poets may seem in some sort to be compounded: 1. Martial in the warlike
sound of his surname, whence some may conjecture him of a military extraction
hasti-vibrans or Shake-speare. — 2. Ovid, the most naturall and witty of all poets,
and hence it was that Queen Elizabeth, coming into a grammar-school made this
contemporary verse, * Persius a crab-staffe, bawdy Martial, Ovid a fine wag.' —
.'i. Plautus, who was an exact comoedian, yet never any scholar, as our Shake-
speare, if alive, would confess liimself, etc. He died anno Domini 16 — , and was
buried at Stratford-upon-Avon, the town of his nativitj'."

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Fuller (Thomas) — continued.

6/8 Joseph's Party-Goioured Coat. Containing A Comment on Part

of the II. Chapter of the I. Epistle of S. Paul to the Corinthians.
Together with several Sermons. By T. F.

First Edition. Small 4to, full calf. London, 1640. £4 4s

679 FUMEE (Mart.). The Historie of the Troubles of Hungarie: Containing

the pitifull losse and ruine of that Kingdome, and the warres happened
there, ifi that time, betweene the Christians and Turkes.

Newly translated out of French into English, by R. C. Gentleman.

Small folio, origifial calf. London, hnfnnted by Felix Kyngston,

1600. £8 8s

Presentation Copy.

680 GADBURY (John, Student in Physick and Astrology). Gardines Goeli:

or An Appeal to the learned and Experienced Observers of Sublunars
and their Vicissitudes, whether the Cardinal Signs of Heaven are not
most influential upon Men and Things proved by X Remarkable Geni-
tures, &c. In a Reply to the learned Author of Cometomantia : wherein
the character of Gassendus is defended, and sundry other Starry-Truths
are Justified.

Small 4to, bound by Riviere in full mottled calf gilt, g. e.

London, 1684. ^8 8s

** * Presentation Copy from the Author to John Gibbon, Blue Mantle at Arms, with
inscription by Gadbury on fly-leaf, MS. nativity by him of Gibbon and numerous
Notes, and further a lonp; and most interesting Autograph letter of Gadbury's on
Astrological Subjects.

681 GALILEI (Galileo). Mathematical Discourses Concerning Two New

Sciences relating to Mechanicks and Local Motion, in Four Dialogues.
With an Appendix concerning the Center of Gravity of Solid Bodies.
Done into English from the Italian by Tho. Weston.

4to, newly bound in half calf gilt, uncut. London, 1730. £4 15s

682 GAMBLING. De Moivre (A). The Doctrine of Chances; or, A Method

of Calculating the Probabilities of Events in Play.

The Second Edition, Fuller, Clearer, and more Correct than the
First.

4to. Fine specimen of eighteenth century English binding, crim-
son morocco, the centre of both sides ornamented with gold tooling of
curves, semi-circles, floral spays, stars, and dots, the whole forming a
large cross, wide gold dentelle border, full gilt back, g. e.

London, Printed for the Author, 1738. £4 lOs

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Gambling — continued.

683 [Downe (Rev. J., Rector of Instow, Devon).] A Defence Of the

Lawfulnesse of Lots in Gaming; against the Arguments of N. N.

Small 4to (51 pp.), unbound. Oxford, 1633. £1 5s

This tract has separate title and pagination, but appears to have been originally part
of another book.

684 GAMES. Seymour (Richard). The Court Gamester; or, Full and Easy In-

structions for Playing the Games now in Vogue, after the best Method;
as they are Play'd at Court, and in the Assemblies (viz. OMBRE, PlC-
QUET, and the ROYAL GAME OF Chess. Wherein the Frauds in Play
are detected, and the Laws of each Game annex' d, to prevent Disputes.
Written for the Use of the Young Princesses.

Small 8vo, original calf. London, Printed for E. Curll, 17 19. 14s

685 GARFIELD (John). Salmasius His Dissection and Confutation of the

Diabolical Rebel MiLTON, in his Impious Doctrines of Falshood, Maxims
of Policies, and destructive Principles of Hypocrisie, Insolences, Invec-
tives, Injustice, Cruelties, and Calumnies against his Gracious Sove-
raign KING CHARLES I. Made legible for the satisfaction of all Loyal
and Obedient Subjects : But by reason of the rigid Inquisition after
Persons and Presses by the late merciless Tyrant Oliver Cromwel, durst
not be sold publickly in this Kingdom, under pain of Imprisonment, and
other intollerable Dammages.

With brilliant impression of the -portrait of King Charles I.

Small 4to, original calf binding.

London, Printed for J. G. B., 1660. £9 9s

*** The dedication copy to King Charles II., with his Royal Arms in blind stamped
on each cover.

686 GARRICK (D.). The Chances. A Comedy with alterations.

First Edition. 8vo, seivn. London, 177^^ £1 Is

♦** Altered from Beanmont & Fletcher's Play with the same title.

687 The Sick Monkey, a Fable. First Edition.

23 pp., 4to, 7tew boards. London, 1765. £1 1s

688 An Ode to Garrick, upon the Talk of the Town,

II pp., 4to, new boards.

London^ Printed for M. Cooper, 1749. £1 10s

MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. 145

689 GARTH (Sir Samuel, M.D.). Dispensary; a Poem.

First Edition. 4to, boards, imait.

London, 1699. Very rare. £6 6s

*** Garth's design for establishing a charitable foundation for supplying the sick
poor with medicines at prime cost, being warmly opposed by the apotliecaries and
some of the College, gave rise to this admirable satire.

5qo The Dispensary; another Issue.

With frontispiece. 8vo, original calf. London, 1699. 8s 6d

691 GAUGER (M.). Fires Improv'd, being a New Method of Building Chim-

neys so as to prevent their Smoaking. Translated from the French by
J. T. Desaguliers.

g folding plates, iirao, full calf . London, 1715. 14$

692 GAY (John). The Beggar's Opera, as it is acted at the Theatre Royal

in Lincolns-Inn-Fields . . to which is added the Musick engraved on
Copper-plates.

The First Edition. 8vo, calf. London, 1728. £25

* * * The First Edition of this renowned play is exceedingly rare. The music was
engraved on copperplates too large for the pages of the printed book, consequently it
is a little cut into as usual. The Beggar's Opera was produced on January 29, 1728,
and made its author's name a household word. " It spread into all the great towns
of England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland. The fame of it was not confined to the
Author only ; the Ladies carried about with them the favourite songs of it on their
fans • and houses were furnished with it in Screens. The person who acted Polly,
till tnen obscure, became all at once the favourite of the town; her Portrait was
engraved and sold in great numbers ; her life written ; books of letters and verses
to her published; and pamphlets made even of her Sayings and Jests." (Pope's
Works, 1735.)

693 The Beggar's Opera, as it is Acted at the Theatre Royal, in

Lincoln's Inn-Fields. Third Edition. London, 1773.

Coffey (Chas.). The Beggar's Wedding. A New Opera.

London, 1729.
Gibber (C). Love in a Riddle, a Pastoral.

London, 1719.
Timon in Love; or, the Innocent Theft. A Comedy.

London, 1733.

The four plays in i vol., 8vo, original calf, rebacked.

London, V .Y . «3 lOs

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Gay (John) — continued.

694 The Captives. A Tragedy, as it is Acted m Drury Lane, by His

Majesty's Servants.

First Edition. 8vo, full calf^ g. e. London, 1724. £1 10s

695 Court Poems, viz., L The Basset-Table. An Eclogue. H. The

Dra wing-Room. IIL The Toilet.

Publish'd faithfully, as they were found in a Pocket-Book taken up
in Westminster Hall, the Last Day of the Lord Winton's Tryal.

First Edition. 8vo, full polished calf gilt, g. e,, by Riviere.

London, 1706. £6 10s

696 The Distressed Wife. A Comedy.

First Edition. 8vo, new boards.

London, Printed for Thomas Astley, 1743. £2 2s

697 Fables.

The Excessively Rare First Edition of each volume.

With numerous copperplate engravings by Gravelot and others.

Fine Copy. 2 vols, in i, small 4to, original calf.

London, Printed for J . Tonson and J. Watts, 1727-38. £21

*^4fr << The most finished productions of our poet, and those to which he will owe his
reputation with posterity, are his ' Fables ' — the finest in the language. They are
written with great spirit and vivacity ; the versification is generally smooth and
flowing ; the descriptions happy and appropriate, and the moral designed to be
conveyed is, for the most part, impressive and instructive." — Charles D. Cleveland.

698 Fables. With Italian Translation by Gian Francesco Giorgetti.

8vo, original calf. London, 1773. 6s

699 Fabulae Selectae, auctore Joanne Gay, latine redditae, interprete

Ch. Anstey.

8vo, original wrappers, uncut. Londini, 1798. lOs 6d

700 The Fan, A Poem in Three Books. By Mr. Gay.

-First Edition. Folio, full levant morocco, g. e., by Riviere.
London, 1714. £12 12s

701 Miniature Pictures. Written Originally by Mr. Gay. Newly

adapted to the most Fashionable and Public Characters, of Both Sexes,
Now Living; Whether in The Church, The Senate, Westminster-Hall,
The Court, The Navy^ The Army, The City, or The Theatres.

Containing above 600 portraits, all of which are acknowledged
striking likenesses.

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Gay (John) — continued.

702 Poems on Several Occasions.

2 vols., small 8vo, original calf. London, 1737. lOs 6d

Contains: Rural Sports; The Fan; The Shepherd's Week; Trivia; The What d'ye
call it; Miscellaneous poems.

703 The Shepherd's Week. In Six Pastorals.

With engraved frontispiece and 6 plates.

First Edition. 8vo, nezu boards. London, lyi^. 12s 6d

704 Trivia; or, the Art of Walking the Streets of London.

Large Paper Copy of the FIRST EDITION, with tJie View of a
London Street on -page i.

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705 Two Epistles: Qne to the Right Honourable Richard, Earl of

Burlington : The other to a Lady.

Svo, full neiv polished calf gilt, g. e., by Riviere.

London, B. Lintott, N.D. (1720). £4 4s

*** The Rare First Edition of Part I. The Epistle to a Lady having been pre-
viously published.

706 GAY (Joseph). The Petticoat: an Heroi-Comical Poem, in two Books.

First Edition. Svo. Fine copy in the original ivrappers, uncut.
London, 1716. £14 14s

707 Ditto.

Second Edition. Svo, 7tezv boards. London, 17 16. 10s 6d

708 GERARDE (John). The Herball; or General Historie of Plantes, Gathered

by John Gerarde, of London, Master in Chirurgerie.

With the finely engraved title by William Rogers (in brilliant state},
portrait of the Author, and hundreds of woodcuts,

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Thick folio, old calf.

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dedicated to Lord Burghley and contains more than 1,800 woodcuts. The book has
many references to localities in various parts of England for scarce plants, and
many allusions to persons and places now of high antiquarian interest. He lays
claim to a purely scientific object, but accepts much contemporary folklore.

In the opening pages figure some quaint verses by '' Thomas Thorney, Master in
Chirurgerie."

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gardens of his house in Holborn.

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Gerarde (John) — continued.

709 The Herball or General Historie of Plantes. Enlarged by Tho.

Johnson.

Foho, old calf {rebacked). London, 1633. £10 lOs

* * * With an engraved title, containing a portrait of the author by J. Payne, and
very numerous woodcuts in the text. A work still much esteemed.

710 The Herball or Generall Historie of Plants. Very much Enlarged

and Amended by Thomas Johnson Citizen and Apothecarye of London.

Engraved title-page in co7npartments, and hundreds of woodcuts
in the text.

Thick folio, full calf. London, 1636. £8 18s 6d

711 THE GENTLEMAN'S GALLING.

First Edition. WitJi most brilliant impression of the engraved
title-page and frontispiece.

Small 8vo. Yery fine copy, in contemporary English morocco, g. e.
London, Printed for T. Garthwait, 1660. £3 3s

* * * Does not contain the epistle to Mr. Garthwait.

712 GERMANY. The Invasions of Germanie, with all the Civill, and bloody
Warres therein, since the first beginning of them in Anno 16 18, and
continued to this present yeare 1638.

With numerous portraits. London, 1638.

The Warnings of Germany, by wonderfull signes, and strange
Prodigies scene in divers parts of that Countrye between the Yeare 16 18
and 1638. All faithfully collected out of credible High Dutch Chron-
icles, and other Histories, by L. Br. Cap.

Illustrated with engravings. London, 1638.

A Briefe and True Relation of the bloody Battell fought between
D. Bernard Saxon Weymar, and the Italian Duke of Savelly.
Illustrated with engravings. London, 1638.

Lacrymae Germaniae: or, The Teares of Germany. Unfolding her
woefull distresse by Jerusalems calamity. Translated out of the high
Dutch coppy.

Folding plate. L.ondon, 1638.

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London, 1638. £7 10s

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713 GESSNER. New Idylles. Translated by W. Hooper, M.D. With A

Letter to M : Fuslin, on Landscape Painting, and the Two Friends of
Bourbon. A Moral Tale, by M. Diderot.

Wzt/t engraved title-page, vignettes, and the series of -plates en-
graved by Sfarroiv after Gessner's pictures.

Large Paper Copy, imperial 8vo, original calf, rebacked.

London, 1776. £3 iQs

714 GIBBON (E.). Miscellaneous Works, with Memoirs of his Life and

Writings, composed by himself, illustrated from his letters, with Notes
by John Lord Sheffield.

First Edition. 2 vols., 4to, half morocco.

London, 1796. £1 lOs

715 GESTA ROMANORUM. Containing Fifty Eight remarkable histories,

collected originally from the best and most ancient Roman Records.
By A. B.

Illustrated with curious cuts.

i2mo, new half calf. London, 1722. £1 6s

716 GLOVER (Richard). Medea. A Tragedy.

First Edition. 4to, new boards. London, 1761. £1 Is

717 GODARTIUS (Johannes). Of Insects; done into English, and Metho-

dized, with the Addition of Notes. (By Martin Lister, M.D.)

With numerous engraved folding plates, etched upon copper, by
Mr. F. PL

Small 4to. Fine copy in full contemporary crimson morocco, g. e.^
by Kalthoeber, with binder's ticket. York, 1682. £4 4s

* * ■'^ Only 150 copies of this book were printed.

718 GODFREY (Sir Edmund Bury). Garnets GhOSt, Addressing to the Jesuits,

met in private Caball, just after the Murther of Sir Edmund-Bury God-
frey. Written by the Author of the Satyr against Virtue (not yet
printed).

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* * * Sir Edmund-Bury Godfrey was Justice of the Peace for Westminster, and to
Mm Titus Oates first brought the narrative of his ''Popish plot." In October,
1678, Godfrey was found murdered near Hampstead, and the public, panic-stricken
by Oates's desperate allegations, promptly laid the crime at the door of the Roman
Gfatholic priests.

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;i9 GODWIN (William). Memoirs.

With portrait of Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin.

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/20 [GODWIN (Francis). 1 Annales of England. Containing the Reignes of
Henry the Eighth, Edward the Sixth, Queene Mary. Written in Latin
by the Right Honorable and Right Reverend Father in God, Francis
Lord Bishop of Hereford. Englished and enlarged by Morgan Godwyn.

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721 GOETHE. GlavidgO>, A Tragedy, In Five Acts. Translated from the

German of Goethe.

8vo, new boards. London, Printed for J . Jolmson, i/gS. lOs 6d

722 GOLDSMITH (Oliver). The Art Of Poetry on a New Plan; illustrated with

a great variety of examples from the best English Poets, and of Trans-
lations from the Ancients.

First Edition. 2 vols., sm. 8vo, half morocco.

London, 1762. £1 lOs

* * * This work was revised by Oliver Goldsmith.

723 The Deserted Village* a Poem.

Engraved vignette on title.

First Edition, ^lo, original half calf . London, lyjo. £42

* * * Bound in the same volume are four other Poetical Pieces.

724 Dr. Goldsmith's celebratefl Elegy on that Glory of her Sex, Mrs.

Mary Blaize.

A very rare early Chap-book edition, illustrated ivith 12 clever
coloured plates.

i2mo, original limp boards. London, J . Harris, 1808. £5 5s

725 Essays.

The genuine issue of the FIRST EDITION. Vignette on title.
London, W. Griffin, 176^. £3 3s

726 The Life of Riohard Nash, of Bath, Esq.; extracted principally

from his Original Papers. Portrait.

First Edition. Zvo, original cloth. London, 17^2. £3 3s

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Goldsmith (Oliver) — co7itinued.

727 A New and Acuurate System ef Natural History, by R. Brookes.

Plates. 6 vols., small 8vo, half calf. London, 1763. £3 lOs

* * * Revised for the Author, by Oliver Goldsmith, to which he contributed the Preface
and Several Introductions to the various Sections.

728 The Poetical and Dramatio Works of Oliver Goldsmith, with an

Account of the Life and Writings of the Author. Portrait.

First London Edition. 2 vols., Svo, original calf.

London, 1780. £1 16s

7 2Q Poems and Plays. To which is prefixed, the Life of the Author.

Vignette title. FIRST EDITION. Small Svo, original calf gilt, re-
backed. Dublin, 1777. £4 lOs

Published three years before the London Edition.

730 Poems and Plays.

A Large and Thick Paper Copy of the FIRST COLLECTED EDITION.
Svo, full neiv morocco gilt, g. e. Dublin, 1777. £10 lOs

73 1 Poems and Plays by Oliver Goldsmith; to which is prefixed the Life

of the Author. Portrait, within a decorative border.

Small Svo, original calf. London, Newbery, 1780. £1 lOs

A scarce edition. It contains ''several Additions and Corrections never before
printed; being the only perfect one ever published of this celebrated Author's
Poems."

732 Retaliation; a Poem.

Including Epitaphs on the most distinguished Wits of this Metro-
polis. Vignette -portrait on title.

FIRST EDITION. 4to, half calf, g. e. London, 177^. £30

**^ Early issue of the First Edition, having the two leaves at end, "Explanatory
Notes," but wants half-title.

733 Shei Stoops to Conquer; or, the Mistakes of a Night. A Comedy.

First Edition. Svo, newly bound by Riviere in full crushed
morocco gilt, g. e. London, 177'^. £35

* * * Early issue of the First Edition, with the errors in the pagination, and the
absence of Diggory from the Dramatis Personae.

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Goldsmith (Oliver) — continued.

734 — She Stoops to Conquer.

First Edition (the second issue which contains the half-title).
8vo, handsomely bound by Riviere in fidl polished calf, g. e.
London, for F . Newbery, 1773. £18 18$

William Cowper's Copy.

736 The Travelter, a Poem.

Vignette on title.

/\X.Oy fidl calf neat. London, 1778. £6 18s

William Cowper's copy, with his Autograph on title, " Wm. Cowper, the gift of
Lady Hesketh, 1786." In same vol, are: Goldsmith's Deserted Village, 1779; Hay-
ley's Ode to John Howard, 1780; Epistle to a Friend on the Death of John Thornton,
1780."

737 — The Vicar of Wake<fiel(l, a Tale, Supposed to be written by himself.

The Second Edition. 2 vols., small Svo, original calf., rebacked.
London, 1766. £8 lOs

738 The Vicar of Wakefleld', a Tale, Supposed to be wTitten by himself.

First Irish Edition. 2 vols, in i, i2mo, original calf, rebacked.
Dublin, 1766. £8 8s

73Q GOMBERVILLE (T. B. de). The poctrine of Morality; or a \ lew of

Human Life, according to the Stoick Philosophy. With an English
Translation by T. M. Gibbs.

With portrait of the Author and upiuards of 100 fine engraved
copperplates by P. Daret.

Folio, half calf. London, 1721. £2 2s

* * * The Series of illustrations contains a number of ''Death" plates.

740 GORDON (Patrick). The Famous Historie of the Retiownecf aiid Valiant
Prince Robert, surnamed the Bruce, King of Scotland, etc., and of
Sundrie other valiant knights both Scots and English.

Enlarged with an addition of the Scottishe kinges lineailie dis-
cended from him to Charles now Prince, together with a note of the
beginninges of the most parte of the antient and famous Nobilitie of
Scotland.

A Historye both pleasant and profitable set forthe and done in
heroike verse by Patrick Gordon, Gentleman.

First Edition (in verse, with marginal notes in prose).

Title within woodcut ornamental border, with Royal Arms within a
border on reverse.

Small 4to. Fine copy, bound by Mansell in full levant morocco,
gold lines on sides, gilt back^ g. e.

At Dort, Printed by George Waters, 1615. £28

Plate XV.

Kinc Charles I.'s Copv of Knolles' Htstoiiy or the Turkes.
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ICES AND

V^EllTUES."

MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. 153

A Nearly Contemporary Manuscript of this Celebrated Poem by
England's First Poet Laureate.

742 GOWER (John). Confessio Amantis.

A very early Manuscript of this the First Important Poem in the
EngHsh Language.

Written by an Enghsh Scribe in EngHsh (in black and red) in a very
legible hand on 408 pages of vellum, double columns (40 lines to a full
page).

Five pages are adorjted with strap ornamentation of floiver sprays,
etc.^ in gold and colours. Towards the end of the Prologue is a Miniature
in gold^ silver and colours (3 by 2f inches') of the Statue in " Nabucha-
donosor' s Vision. "^^ There are further several hundreds of small initials
in gold and colours y many of them being adorned ivith floral spray orna-
mentations.

Thick folio, calf. Circa 1420.

(See Illustration, Frontispiece.) £680

* * ^ A most interestiiip; Manuscript of the famous poem by the " first of our Authors,

who can be properly said to have written English." It is practically contemporary

with him, as he died in 1408.
On the margin of one leaf is a couplet by, probablj' the original owner, which may well

be Edward IV. 's step-son, or some of the Thomas Greys of Northumberland.
" Like as thys reson doth devysse
I do mv selfeyn same wysse.

Gray, T."
On two other leaves are inscriptions in Elizabethan penmanship : " John Gouer wrotte

this Booke with his owrie hand."
" John Gouwer wrott Bocke with his oune haunde, a poett Lawriet — pr ME, WILLIAM

MEATCAFE."
On the blank leaf preceding the commencement of the poetic matter, is this entry, pro-
bably of Jacobean date : " Frances Tomsone, of Westmester, servant to the King's

ma'tie, dwelling in Longe Diche by the Hank in Sword."
And above it, in an earlier hand : " John Gower wrott this booke, poeett Laurrett."
This leaf and the reverse are both adorned with a very clever life-sized portrait in

pencil, probably of Gower.

* * * Of the few Manuscripts of this great work which are* known to be in existence

(practically all being in Public Libraries) few are so perfect as this one, which only
lacks the first leaf of the prologue and about six other leaves. It apparently was
unknoAvn to Prof. Macaulay, but formed the subject of a lecture by Dr. Charlton at
the Newcastle Archaeological Society, and this lecture is printed in their proceedings.

" Gower's ' Confessio Amantis,' liis only English poem, is in about 30,000 eight-syllabled
rhymed lines.

" The poem consists of a prologue and eight books. The prologue deals largely with the
degradation of the clergy and of the people, which Gower reminds his readers iit is^in
tlieir own power to check. He concludes with a moralised interpretation of NelDU-
chadnezzar's dream. In Book I. Gower represents a lover as appealing to Cupid and
Venus to cure him of his sickness, Venus sends a confessor. Genius, to shrive him.
The confessor arrives, and the dialogue between him and the lover occupies the rest
of the poem. The confessor first asks the lover how he has used his five senses, and,
in a number of stories chiefly derived from classical authors, warns him of the vices
which the senses are prone to encourage. In the later books the confessor describes

(Continued over)

154 MAGGS BROS . 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W.

Gower (John) — continued.

ill turn the seven deadly sins, pride, envy, anger, sloth, avarice, gluttony, and lust,
with their different ministers, and illustrates their ravages by a series of stories
loosely strung together after the manner of Boccaccio's ' Decameron.' The last and
eighth book concludes with the confessor's absolution of the lover. There are occa-
sional digressions, as in the account of the rise of the mechanical arts in Book IV.,
or of the religions of the ancient world in Book V. In Book VII. the general plan
is interrupted by a summary of philosophical knowledge — of ' theorique,' ' rheto-
rique,' and ' poetique ' — derived from the popular ' Secretum Secretorum ' falsely
attributed to Aristotle, and assumed to embody the instruction given by Aristotle to
Alexander. Gower adds to this interpolation many stories illustrating the duties of
kingship, with unfriendly allusions to Richard II.

'' Gower contrives to tell in all 112 different stories, and shows himself acquainted with
much classical and mediaeval literature. The sources of nearly all his stories have
been traced. About twenty come from Ovid's ' Metamorphoses,' three from Ovid's
* Hero ides.' Others are extracted from the Bible, the ' Gesta Romanorum,' Josephus,
Valerius Maximus, Trogus Pompeius or Justin. The chronicles of Cassiodorus and
Isidorus, Godfrey of Viterbo's ' Pantheon,' ' Vincent de Beauvais,' ' Speculum His-
toriale,' the ' Geste de Troy ' (in the prose of Dares Phrygius or the verse of Guido
di Colonna), the romances of Alexander the Great and Sir Lancelot were also among
his works of reference. Statius's ' Thebais ' supplied the story of the knight Capa-
neus (Book II.). Gower mentions Dante, and was clearly familiar with Boccaccio
and Ovid's ' Ars Amandi.' Scattered through the work are Latin rubrics and
elegiacs. The latter, written in imitation of Boethius, are often notable for their
bad prosody and loose grammar."

743 GOULBOURN (E.; of the Horse Guards). The Blueviad; a Satirical Poem

(on the Volunteers) in Manuscript.

Small 4to, original vellum. N.D. £2 lOs

*** This book formerly belonged to Capt. Peter Hawker, the famous sportsman, and
contains his autograph.

744 GOUGH (J). The Strange Discovery: A Tragi-Comedy.

First Edition, small 4to. Fine tall copy in half morocco gilt, g. e.
London^ 1640. . £15 15s

* * * The Prologue refers to the Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus.
" Of Christopher Columbus, and his brother
Whose navigable paines did first discover
That unknown World. . . ." >

744a GOWRY CONSPIRACY: A Fourme of Prayer with Thankesgiving

To be used by all the Kings Maiesties louing Subjects every yeere the
. Fift of August, being the day of his Highnesse happie deliverance from
the Traiterous & bloodie attempt of the Earle of Gowry & his brother,
with their Adherents, set foorth by Authoritie. Woodcut on title.

Small 4to, full levant morocco gilt, g. e., by Bedford.

Imprinted at London, 1606. £9 lOs

MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. 155

745 COWER (John, Master of Arts of Jesus College, Cambridge). OvidS

Festivals, or Romane Calendar translated into English Verse equinu-
merally.

First Edition. i2mo, full olive morocco gilt.

Printed by Roger Daniel, Printer to the University of Cambridge^
1640. ^^ 4S

746 CRAY (Thomas). Ode perfarmetl in the Senate House at Cambridge

July I, 1769, at the Installation of His Grace Augustus Henry Fitzroy,
Duke of Grafton, Chancellor of the University.

The First Edition. 8 pp., 4to, bound by Riviere in full levant
morocco, g. e. Cambridge, I76g. £42

* * ^ " Gray is one of the few, the very few, of our greatest poets, who deserves to be
studied in every Hne for the apprehension of that wonderful sweetness, power, and
splendour of versification which has made him (scholastic and difl&cult as he is) one
of the most popular of writers. The secret of his supremacy consists principally in
the consummate art with which his diction is elaborated into the most melodious
concatenation of syllables to form lines."

Gray could never compose voluntarily ; his genius resembled the armed apparition in
Shakespeare's master-tragedy. " He would not be commanded." When he wished
to compose the "Installation Ode," for a considerable time he felt himself without
the power to begin it ; a friend calling on him, Gray flung open his door hastily, and
in a hurried voice and tone, exclaimed in the first verse of that ode —
Hence, avaunt ! 'tis holy ground ! —

(7. Disraeli.)

747 Paems.

First Collected Edition. Small 8vo, original calf.

London, Printed for J. Dodsley, 1768. £3 lOS

748 Poems.

Frontispiece and vignette on title and at end.

First Dublin Edition (published the same year as the First
London Edition).

i2mo, original calf . Dublin, 1768. lOs 6d

74Q The Latin Odes Ot Mr, Gray, in Enghsh Verse, with an Ode on

the Death of a favourite Spaniel (by E. B. Greene).

First Edition. 4to. An uncut copy, seivn as issued.

London, 1775. "^8s

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Cifay (Thomas) — continued.

7:50 Six Poems. Designs by Mr. R. Bentley for Six Poems by Mr. T.

Gray.

Six full-page plates, together with Head and Tail Pieces, after
Bentley by Mutter.

Large and Thick Paper Copy, with fine impressions of the illustra-
tions.

Folio, calf. London, 1766. £5 5s

751 Poems.

The beautiful Edition printed at the Bodoni Press.

Small folio. A Very Fine Copy in full contemporary English red
morocco gilt, g. e. F.arma, Printed by Bodoni, 1793. £5 15s

Thomas Gray's Copy, with Numerous Manuscript Notes by him.

752 London and its Environs described, containing an account

of whatever is most remarkable for grandeur, elegance, curiosity
or use in the City and in the Country Twenty Miles round, decorated and
illustrated with a great number of views in perspective, engrdved from
original drawings, together zvith plans

6 vols., 8vo, original calf . London, 1761. £52 lOs

* * * From the Library of the celebrated Poet Thomas Gray, each vohime profusely
annotated by him — in all several hundred Marginal Notes in his extremely neat Auto-
graph, many of considerable length. It was these Notes that the celebrated Anti-
quary, Pennant, owned himself much indebted to for many corrections and observa-
tions on the Antiquities of London.

These volumes afterwards passed into the possession of the Rev. J. Mitford, the Editor
of Gray's Works.

753 GREEN (Matthew). Th© Spleen, an Epistle, inscribed to his particular

Friend Mr. C. J.

First Edition. 8vo, full morocco gilt, g. e., by Bedford.
^ London, 1737. £2 5s

754 GREGORY (John). Gregorii Opuscula; or. Notes and Observations upon

Some Passages of Scripture, with other Learned Tracts. 1650.

Gregorii Posthilima; or Certain Learned Tracts. Together with a short
Account of the Author's Life; and Elegies on his much-lamented Death.
1650.

De /Eris & Epoohis. Shewing the Several Accounts of Time among all
Nations, from the Creation to the present Age. 1649.

The Assyrian Monarchie, being A short Description of its Rise and Fall.
1649.

The Desoriptien and use of the Terrestrial Globe. 1649.

Together in i vol., small 4to, original calf. London, 1649-50. £1 5s

MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. 157

755 GREENE (Robert). Greenes Garde of Fancie, Wherein the Folly of those

Caipet Knights is cteoipherecf,

Which guiding their course by the compase of Cupid, either dash their
ship against most dangerous Rocks, or else attaine the haven with pain
and peril. Wherein also is described in the person of Gwydemus, a cruell
Combate between Nature & Necessitie.

Small 4to, full morocco, g. e.

At London, Printed for William Ponsonby, 1587. £75

*** Title, Dedication and signature F2. in facsimile.

THIS THE SECOND EDITION HAS ADDED FOR THE FIRST TIME 'THE
DEBATE BETWEENE FOLLTE AND LOVE." THE FIRST EDITION WAS
PUBLISHED IN 1584 UNDER THE TITLE OF '' GWYDONIUS." OF THIS
HOWEVER ONLY ONE COPY IS KNOWN, THE CHRISTIE MILLER COPY,
WHICH SOLD FOR £770.

OF THIS SECOND EDITION, WE CANNOT TRACE THE SALE OF ANY OTHER
COPY.

"The pamphlets which were written by the poet Robert Greene in the last years of
his life, give a wonderfully vivid picture of the London that he lived in. The osten-
sible purpose of these pamphlets is moral, to warn ignorant youth against the thou-
sand and one devices of rogues and sharpers. But their value to us is rather in their
realistic description of the life of the town that Shakespeare knew."

756 The Honorable History of Frier Bacon, and Frier Bungay.

As it was lately plaid by the Prince Palatine his Servants,

Woodcut on title.

Small 4to, full crushed levant morocco extra, g. e.

London, 1655.

(See Illustration, Plate No. IX.). £25

The First Book Printed at Eton.

7^7 GREGORIUS NAZIANZENUS (S.). In Julianum Invectivae duae

(Graece), edidit by R. Montagu.

4to. Tall Copy in the original calf binding.

Etonae in Collegia Regali excudebat Joannes Norton, 16 10. £5 5s

* * * The First Book printed at Eton, and the first in Greek characters. Printed with
the *' Silver Type," the fount invented by Sir Henry Savile.

758 GREVILLE (Sir Foulk). The Five Yeares of King James, or, The Condi-
tion of the State of England, and the Relation it had to other Provinces.
Small 4to, half morocco. I^ondon, 1643. 148

158 MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W.

Presentation Copy.

759 GREW (Nehemiah). Musfleuimi Regalis SO€ietatis, or a Catalogue and

Description of the Natural and Artificial Rarities belonging to the Royal
Society and preserved at Gresham Colledge, whereunto is subjoyned the
Comparative Anatomy of Stomachs and Guts.

Portrait and numerous engraved -plates.

Folio, contemporary full morocco, g. e. London, 168 1. £1 5s

* ^ * Presentation Copy from the Author, with his Inscription on lower margin of title.

760 GRYMESTONE (Ed.). The Imperiail History from the first foundation

of the Roman Monarchy to this present tyme.

Engraved and printed titles.

Thick folio, original calf. London, 1623. £1 16s

The Poet, Gabriel Harvey's Copy.

761 GUAZZO (Steeven). The Civile Conversation written first in Italian, and

nowe translated out of French by George Pettie, devided into foure
bookes.

In the first is conteined in generall, the fruites that may bee reaped
by conversation, and teaching ho we to knowe good companie from yll.

In the second, the manner of conversation, meete for all persons,
which shall come in any companie, out of their owne houses^ and then
of the perticulat points which ought to bee observed in companie betweene
young men and olde. Princes and private persons, learned and unlearned.
Citizens and Strangers, men & women.

In the third is perticularly set f oorth the orders to bee observed in
conversation within doores, between the husband and the wife, the father
and the sonne, brother and brother, the Maister and the servant.

In the fourth, the report of a banquet.

The First Edition. Small 4to. A Fine Copy in its original vellum
binding. London, Richard Watkins, 158 1. £65

*** From the library of the celebrated Elizabethan poet, Gabriel Harvey, with his
autograph Signature on top of title-page.

This is one of the books which was read by William Shakespeare, indeed, from it he
partly obtained the idea for his celebrated speech " All the World's a Stage," in
"As You Like It." Douce, in his ''Illustrations of Shakespeare," writes as fol-
lows : " There are likewise two other probable sources that are worthy of notice on
this occasion. The first is Withal's short dictionarie in Latine and English. The
other is Pettie's translation of Guazzo's Civile conversation, where one of the partie
introduces the saying of some philosopher ' that this world was a stage, we the
players which present the comedie.' "

MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W., 1 5g

762 GUEVARA (Don Antony of). The Dial of Princes.

Compiled by the Reverend Father in God, Don Antony of Guevara.
Enghshed out of the French by T. North ; with an ampHfication also of a
fourth booke annexed to the same, entituled, The Favored Courtier, never
heretofore imprinted in our vulgar tongue.

Black Letter, folio, original stamped calf ^ zvith the initials of the
Binder, ** R. Br (rebacked).

London, R. Tottill and T. Mar she, 1568. £25

Sir Thomas North, the translator of this famous book, exerted a powerful influence on
Elizabethan writers, and has been described as the first great master of English
prose.

763 GUNPOWDER PLOT. His Majesties Speech in this last session of Par-

liament, as neere his very words as could be gathered at the instant;
together with a discourse of the maner of the discovery of this late in-
tended Treason, joyned with the Examination of some of the prisoners.

Small 4to, half calf. London, 1605. ^2 2s

764 GYPSIES. Carew (Bampfylde-Moore). An Apology for the Life of Mr.

Bampfyldte-Moore Carew, commonly called the King of the Beggars.
With folding portrait of Bampfylde-Moore Carew.
Small 8vo, original calf. I^ondon, 1775. lOs 6d

Charles II. 's Copy.

tions, Endowments, Parts, external and internal, Office, Duty and Dig-
nity of a Perfect Politician. With a Discourse of Kingdorns, Republi-
ques, & States-Popular. As also, Of Kings and Princes : To which is
annexed. The New Models of Modern Policy.

i2mo. Fine Copy in the original calf.

London, Printed by J a. Cottrel, for Sam. Speed, 1660. £6 6s

*** From the Library of King Charles II., with his initials '' C.R." surmounted by
a crown in gold on sides.

766 HABINGTON (W ) Castara,

The Third Edition, corrected and augmented.

Frontispiece by Marshall.

i2mo. Fine copy, bound by Riviere in full crushed levant morocco
extra, g. e. London, 1640. £7 15s

* * * With separate title-pages to the Second and Third Parts.

Castara is a collection of Poems in praise of the Author's wife, Lucy Herbert, daughter
of 1st Baron Powis, The third part, which appears in this edition for the first time,
contains the cliaracter of " The Holy Man," and 22 devotional or meditative poems.

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j^y HALE (John). Golden Remains of the ever Memorable Mr, John Hales,
of Eton College, etc.

With the shrouded portrait of the Author lying on a Bier, and en-
graved title by Hollar.

First Edition. Small 4to, full levant morocco, g. e.

London, 1659. £4 4s

768 HALE (Sir Matthew). A Disoourse touching Provision for the Poor.

First Edition. i2mo, original calf . London, 16^^. £1 5s

The Earliest Known Placard of Tight-Rope Dancing.

769 HALL (Jacob). The Broadside Advertisement of his Performance,

printed on one side of a quarto sheet, with the Royal Arms at top. £10 lOs

* * * This Broadside is, as far as we can trace, unique, and is the earliest one known
of such a performance, Jacob Hall was the celebrated entertainer of his kind. In
1668 he attained his greatest popularity. The court encouraged him, and he
described himself as " sworn servant to his Majestie,-' Lady Castlemain, afterwards
Duchess of Cleveland, to avenge herself on Charles for neglecting her, fell, according
to Pepys and Grammont, '' mightily in love " with him. In April, 1668, he was a
regular visitor at her .house, and received a salary from her. A placard was issued
describing the performances of *' himself and those of Mr, Richard Lancashire, with
several others of their companies," Hall and his friends promised '' excellent dancing
and vaulting on the ropes, with variety of rare feats of activity and agility of body
upon the stage, as doing of somersets and flipflaps, fij^ing over thirty rapiers, and
over several men's heads, and also flying through several hoops," Hall finally
challenged " all others whatsoever, whether Englishmen or strangers, to do the like
with them for twenty pounds, or what more they please," On 4 September, 1679,
William Blaythwaite, in a letter to Sir Robert Southwell, mentioned that he had
just witnessed Hall's exhibition of agility, Robert Wild, in his " Rome Rhymed to
Death," 1683; Dryden, in his epilogue to Nat Lee's " Mithridates " ; Dr, John
King, in his " Collection of Riddles," refer to his skill, and in the second edition
of the collection entitled " Wit and Drollery " (1682) he is described as still delight-
ing London with his jumping. — (D,N,B.),

of Lancastre and Yorke

Beeyng long in continual discension for the croune of this Noble Realme,
-with all the actes done in bothe the tymes of the Princes, bothe of the
one linage & of the other, beginnying at the tyme of King Henry the
Fowerth, the first aucthor of this devision, & so successfully proceadyng
to the Reign of King Henry the Eight,

Woodcut title and ivoodcut initials.

First Issue of the FIRST EDITION. Folio, Fine copy in modern
pigskin, blind tooled, g. e. London, R. Grafton, 1548. £18 18s

Shakespeare must have consulted Halle's Chronicle continuously whilst composing
King Henry V, King Henry VI, King Henry VITI, Pericles, Othello, etc. A portion
is reprinted in Capeirs '•' School of Shakespeare."

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771 HAMILTON (Dukes of). Burnet (Gilbert). The Memoires of the Lives*

and Actions of James and William, Dukes of Hamilton and Castleherald,
&0,, in which an Account is given of the Rise and Progress of the Civil
Wars of Scotland. With many letters, instructions, and other Papers,
written by King Charles the I. never before published. All drawn out
of or copied from the Originals.

Wii/t fortrait of James, Duke of Hamilton, by White.

Folio, original calf. London, 1677. £1 lOs

Unique Copy, with the Large Folding Plate.

772 HARRINGTON (James). The Commonwealth of Oceana. Dedicated to

His Highnesse the Lord Protector of the Common- wealth of England,
Scotland and Ireland.

First Edition. Small folio, original calf. London, 1656. £10 lOs

* * * This copy is, we believe, unique, having the very large folding engraved broad-
sheet " The Use and Manner of the Ballot." This plate was prepared for issue with
the work, but was not ready when it was published. Engraved on the sheet is :
" This figure had it binn timely finished should have had a place in Mr. Harrington's
Oceana ; a worke methodicaly unfoulding the mistries of all past Governments : &
shewing how by slow & undiscerned degrees, the late Monarchy in England is come
to a naturall period & desolucion ; & that it is impossible to fix any other Govern-
ment or prevent a Comonwealth in this Nacion but by ye interposition of force <fe
sheding of bloud ; to avoid woh hee proposes such a modell of a Comonwealth as
reconsiles all parties & takes in all Interists as well in matters of Conscince as State
& by the use of this Ballott \ shuts passion and parciallity out of all popular EUec-
tions."

773 HARINGTON (Sir John). A new discourse of a stale subject, called the

Metamorphosis of Aiax written by Misacmos, to his friend and cosin
Philostilpnos.

With a woodcut.

At London, Printed by Richard Field, dwelling in the Black friers,
1596.

In the prologue are the Music and Words of a song called " Black
Sauntus."

An Apologie.

I. Or rather a retractation. 2. Or rather a recantation.

3. Or rather a recapitulation. 4, Or rather a replication.

5. Or rather an examination. 6. Or rather an accusation.
7. Or rather an explication. 8. Or rather an exportation.

9. Or rather a consideration. 10. Or rather a confirmation.

II. Or rather all of them. 12. Or rather none of them.

London, 1596. Issued without a title-page (the title as above com-
mencing the first page of text.)

(Continued c\er)

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Harington (Sir John) — continued.

Ulysses upon Aiax: written by Misodiaboles to his friend Phil-

aretis.

Printed at London for Thomas Gubbins, 1596. With woodcut on
D6 {some headlines touched 'by Binder^).

An Anatomy of the Metamorphosed Aiax.

At London : Impririted by Richard Field, 1596.
The four excessively rare pieces, all FIRST EDITIONS, i2mo, and
bound by Riviere in 4 volumes , crushed levant morocco extra, g. e.

(See Illustration, Plate No. X.) £150

* * * Sir John Harington was Godson of Queen Elizabeth. He was educated at Eton
and Cambridge, and he soon became famous as a wit and man of the world, his
epigrams began to pass current and he enlivened the court by his sallies.

For writing these four tracts, he incurred the Queen's anger — it was not the indecency
of them, but a suspected innuendo about the Earl of Leicester which drew the Royal
anger of Harington. He was ordered to leave the court " till he had grown sober,"
and there was even a talk of summoning him before the Star Chamber. Ultimately
a licence was refused for printing the books, but not till the earliest volume had run
through three editions in the year. In 1598 Harington was forgiven by Queen
Elizabeth.

Drake, in ** Shakespeare and his Times," writes, " We shall conclude these observations
on tne miscellaneous literature of Shakespeare's time, by noticing one of the earliest
of our Facetiae, the production of an author who may be termed, in allusion to this
jeu d'esprit, the Rabelais of England. Had the subject of this satire been exception-
able in its nature, the popularity which it acquired for a season might have been
permanent, but its grossness is such as not to admit of adequate atonement by any
portion of wit, however poignant. It is entitled ' A New Discourse of a Stale Sub-
ject,' called the Metamorphosis of Ajax. Written by Misacmos to his friend and
cosin Phillostilpnos, London, 1596, and it is said to have originated from the author's
invention of a watercloset for his house at Kelston. The conceit, or pun upon the
word Ajax, or a jakes, appears to have been a familiar joke at the time, and had
been previously introduced by Shakespeare in his ' Love's Labour Lost,' when Costard
tells Sir Nathaniel, the curate, on his failure in the character of Alexander, ' You
will be scraped out of the painted cloth for this ; your lion, that holds his poll-ax
sitting on a close-stool, will be given to A-jax ; he will be the ninth worthy.' "

;^75 HAUTEVILLE (Monsieur). An Account of Poland. Containing, A Geo-
graphical Description of the Country, The Manners of the Inhabitants,
and the Wars they have been Engag'd in; the Constitution of that
Government; Particularly the Manner of Electing and Crowning their
King; his Power and Prerogatives : With a Brief History of the Tartars,
etc.

8vo, original calf. London, Printed for T. Goodwin, 1698. 16s

776 HAYES (Philip.) Memoirs of Prince William Henry, Duke of Glocester,
from an Original Tract written by Jenkin Lewis and continued by the
Editor (Dr. P. Hayes).

Svo, half red morocco gilt, uncut. London, 1789. 12s 6d

yyy HAYLEY (William). Plays of Three Acts; written for a Private Theatre.
4to, original boards, uncut. London, 1784. £2 lOs

Contains: The Happy Prescription; Marcella ; The Two Connoisseurs; Lord Russel ;
The Mausoleum.

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;/8 HAWKINS (Sir Richard). The Observations of Sir Richard Hawkins,
Knight, in His Voyage into the South Sea, Anno Domini 1593.

First Edition. Folio, original calf.

Londofiy Printed by I. D. for John Jaggardy and are to be sold at his
shop at the Hand and Starr e in Fleete-streetey neere the Temple Gate,
1622. £25

* * * Sir Richard Hawkins' conception was not only a voyage round the world, arriving
at " the islands of Japan, of the Philippines, and Moluccas, the kingdoms of China
and East Indies, by the way of the Straits of Magellan and the South Sea," but he de-
signed principally, he tells us, " to make a perfect discovery of all those parts where
he should arrive, as well known as unknown, with their longitudes and latitudes, the
lying of their coasts, their head-lands, their ports and baj^s, their cities, towns and
peoplings, their manner of government, with the commodities which the countries
yielded, and of which they have want and are in necessity."

The account of the early part of the voyage, written by Hawkins himself, is interesting
from the intelligent descriptions of sea life and of the places at which the ships
touched. On 5 November they anchored between the Santa Anna Islands, to the
North of Cape Frio. There they put the sick on shore, and refreshed them with sea-
fowl and such fruits as the islands afforded. Afterwards they watered the Isla
Grande, to the West of Rio Janeiro : and on 18 December shaped their course for
the Straits o"T Magellan. At Santa Anna they had emptied out and burnt the
victualler ; off the mouth of the River Plate the pinnace deserted and made her
way home again. The Dainty thus came alone to the Straits ; passed throiigii. not
without danger; and on 19 April, 1594, anchored at the island of Mocha, where fresh
provisions were procured. " T have not tasted better mutton anywhere," Hawkins
noted. And so on to Valparaiso, where they plundered the town and ransomed the
ships in the bay; thence going north, making a few prizes, they anchored on 18 June
in the bay of San Matea, where on the 19th they were found by two large Spanish
ships, well armed and commanded by Don Beltran de Castro, brother-in-law of the
viceroy, who had fitted them out expressly to look for and capture or destroy these
English pirates.

The crew of the Dainty had been reduced by deaths to about seventj^-five ; the Spaniards
are said to have numbered ten times as many, which is probable enough. Another
estimate, making them " thirteen hundred men and boys," may be pronounced a
gross exaggeration. The Dainty was stoutly defended, and she might possibly have
beaten off her assailants and made good her escape, but for the extreme carelessness
with which she had been prepared for action. Hawkyns had left all the supervision
as well as the preparation to the gunner, in whom he had perfect confidence, but who,
in the hour of need, proved ignorant and incapable. There were no cartridges, much
of the ammunition had been spoiled by damp, few of the guns were clear when they
were wanted, and some of them had been loaded with the powder on top of the shot.
Hawkyns's own account of the action tells of such gross neglect and mismanagement,
as to give rise to a suspicion that, whatever the gunner's faults, Hawkyns was not
the '* complete seaman " and skilful commander that he would wish his readers to
suppose. Of his stubborn courage, however, there is no doubt. The fight lasted
through three days, till Hawkyns was carried below severely wounded. The ship
was then almost knocked to pieces, with fourteen shot under water, seven or eight
feet of water in the hold, and the pumps smashed ; many of the men killed, many
more wounded, and the rest mad drunk. Hawkyns therefore surrendered on capitu-
lation, Don Beltran solemnly pledging himself " that he would give us our lives with
good entreaty, and send us as speedily as he could into our own country." (D.N.B.)

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779 HAYNE (Thos). The Life and Death of Dr. Martin Luther.

With the rare oval portrait of Luther by T . Holmant, and engraved
title. Small 4to, original calf.

London, Printed by I. L. for John Stafford, 164 1. £2 10s

With poem to the memory of Luther by Francis Quarles.

780 HAYNES (Joseph). Mr. Haynes, His Recantation Prologue upon his hrst

appearance on the Stage after his return from Rome.

Folio, new boards. London, 1689. ^"^ "^^S

* * * Joseph Haines, sometimes called Count Haines, acquired little reputation as an

actor. His fame was due to the delivery of prologues and epilogues, often of his
own composition. As Bayes, Haines spoke, in a white sheet, the above recantation
prologue, written for him by Brown, two lines in which are :

'' I own my crime of leaving in the lurch

My mother-play house; she's my Mother Church."

781 HAYWARD (Sir John). The Life and Raigne of King Edward the Sixt.

With a brilliant impression of the engraved title by Vaughan, which
contains portrait of Edward VI. in an oval, crozvned with laurel: also
portrait of Sir John Hayward on the verso of second leaf of " To tJte
Reader.''

First Edition. London, 1630.

The First Part of the Life and raigne of King Henrie the llll. Extending
to the end of the first yeare of his raigne. Written by I. H.

First Edition and First Issue.

Imprinted at London by John Wolfe, 1 599.

The 2 Works in one vol., small 4to. Fine Copy iii the original calf.

£10 10s

* * * Sir Thomas Hayward, who in 1599 issued his account of the fall of Richard and

the elevation of his successor to the Throne, under the title of the *' First Part of
the Life and Raigne of King Henrie the Fourth," dedicating the work to the Earl
of Essex, displeased Elizabeth so seriously that through her influence he was repri-
manded by the Star Chamber and thrown into prison. The Queen continued to be
so excitable on the subject that even in August, 1601, in an interview with Lambard,
who was exhibiting a work on the public records, his " Pandecta Rotulorum," on
opening at the reign of Richard, she said, in allusion to the deposition of that
sovereign and to the recent insurrection, " I am Richard the Second, knowe yee not
that?" to which he replied, "Such a wicked imagination was determined and at-
tempted by a most unkind gentleman, the most adorned creature that ever your
Majestid made." The latter part of the Queen's rejoinder is more significant than
intelligible : ** He that will forget God will also forget his benefactors. This tragedy
was played fourtie times in open streets and houses." — Halliwell-Phillipps's Out-
lines of the Life of Shakespeare.

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Hay ward (Sir John) — continued.

782 — The Life and Raigne of King Edward the Sixt, with the begin-

ning of the Raigne of Queen Ehzabeth.

The Second Edition, corrected and amended.

Portrait of Hayward by Pass, and engraved title by Marshall.

i2mo, calf. London^ 1636. £2 2s

* * * Introduced on the engraved title are portraits of King Edward and Queen
Elizabeth.

783 HEATH (James). A Brief Chronicle of the late Intestine Warr in the

Three Kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland. With the Interven-
ing Affairs of Treaties, and other Occurrences relating thereunto.

The 4 parts in i vol., with the engraved title ^ and 35 -portraits^
original impressions.

Thick 8vo, original calf. London, 1663-4. ^3 3s

*** Lacks portrait of Van Tromp. This is a book which is rarely found perfect.

784 HELIODORUS: An /Ethiopian Historic.

Fyrst written in Greeke by Hehodqrus, and translated into English
by T(ho.) U(underdowne), no lesse witty then pleasant, being newly
corrected and augmented, with diuers new additions by the same Author,
whereunto is also annexed the Argument of every Booke in the beginning
of the same, for the better understanding of the Storie.

Small 4to, straight- grain morocco gilt, g. e.

Printed at London, 1605. £15

* ■'^ * A Story in this work is alluded to in Shakespeare's ''Twelfth Night," Act V.,

Sc. 1.

Henry VIIIth's Divorce of Catherine of Arragon.

783 HENRY VIII. The Determinations of the moste famous and mooste
excellent universities of Italy and Fraunce, that it is so unl(aw)efull for
a man to marie his brothers wyfe that the pope hath no power to dispense
therwith.

Black Letter, title within woodctit border.
i2mo, old calf.

(Colophon) Imprinted at London in the house of Thomas Berthelet
printer to the Kinges most noble grace, the 7 Day of Novembre 153 1. £25

* ■* * A most interesting volurile, printed by ordel* of King Henry VIII. in support of

his plea for divorce. The King desired the opinions of the foreign universities as
more impartial. Henry sent Reginald Pole to Paris to influence the divines of the
Sorbonne, and in the spring and summer of 1530 other agents were busy corrupting

(Continued over)

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Henry VIII. — continued.

the universities of Northern Italy. In the end, the King obtained, besides a multi-
tude of individual opinions, no fewer than eight decisions under the seals of learned
corporations in France and Italy against the validity of marriage with a brother's
wife, and against the competency of the pope to dispence in such a case.

These decisions, together with a discourse showing the Scriptures also against the
marriage, were printed by Order of the King. This volume is of extraordinary
RARITY. It was intended to influence the general public through the Press.

The Opinions were also read in the House of Commons 30 March, 1531, at the close of
the parliamentary session, after which Sir Thomas More, as Lord Chancellor, had
the ungrateful task imposed upon him of telling the members to report to their
constituencies what they had seen and heard, so that it might appear that the King's
proceedings were due merely to conscientious scruples. (D.N.B.)

786 Institution of a Christian Man. Abstract of " The Necessary

Doctrine and Erudition for any Christen Man."

A contemporary MS. written in Old English Black Letter.
Small 4to, original half calf. £4 4s

* * * With autograph of Win. Herbert and Ralph Thoresby.

78; HERALDRY. Cady (William). Book of Arms.

The Original Manuscript, adorned with itiore than 70 Coats of Arms,
for the most -part ein blazoned. Written in a neat Court Hand of the early*
part of the Seventeenth Century.

Folio. Most handsomely bound by Chambolle Duru in full crushed
blue morocco, gold lines and decorations on sides, full gilt back, inside
doublure of crimson morocco, with gold dentelle border, gilt leaves.

Circa 16 10- 1640. £10 lOs

788 Holme (Randle). The Academy of Armory: or, A Storehouse of

Armory and Blazon, containing the Several variety of Created Beings,
and how born in Coats of Arms, both Foreign and Domestick. With the
Instruments used in all Trades and Sciences, together with their Terms
of Art, etc.

With engraved title by P. Edivards (margined) and plate.

Original Edition. Thick folio, old calf, rebacked.

Chester, 1688. £16 16s

A heterogeneous and extraordinary composition, containing a vast fund of curious
information. The address to the reader at the end of the book suggested to Dr.
Johnson the idea of his own inimitable preface to his dictionary.

789 HERBERT (George). A Priest to the Temples; or, the Country Parson,

his Character and Rule of Holy Life.

The Second Edition, with a new Preface by Barnabas Oley.
\2mo, full calf . London, 167 1. 18s

MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. 167

790 HERBERT (Sir Percy). Certaine Conceptions, or Considerations of Sir

Percy Herbert, upon the strange change of Peoples Dispositions and
Actions in these latter times.

First Edition. Small 4to, original calf, rebacked.

London, Printed by E. G. and are to be sold by Richard Tojnlins,
1650. £10 10s

*** Tlie book is dedicated " For my Sonne Mr. William Herbert."
" Tliis is a book of rare occurrence. The fable of Parnell's Hermit is drawn from the
story narrated on p. 220." — Beloc's Anecdotes.

791 HERBERT (Thos.). A Relation of Some Yeares Travaile, Begunne Anno

1626. Into Afrique and the greater Asia, especially the Territories of
the Persian Monarchic : and some parts of the Orientall Indies, and lies
adiacent. Of their Religion, Language, Habit, Discent, Ceremonies,
and other matters concerning them.

Engraved frontispiece and many other engraved illustrations.

First Edition. Small folio, original calf. London, 1634. ^^ ^^^

792 — Some Yeares Travels into Divers parts of Asia and Afrique.

Second Edition, revised and enlarged by the Author.

With engraved title, and 45 engraved maps and curious illustrations.

Small folio, russia {rebacked). London, 1638. £5 5s

793 HERIOT (J.). An Historical Sketch of Gibraltar, with an Account of the

Siege which that Fortress stood against the combined Forces of France
and Spain : including a minute and circumstantial detail of the SORTIE
made by the Garrison on the Morning of Nov. 27, 1781, for the purpose
of destroying the formidable works erected by the Spaniards against
that Fortress.

Large Paper Copy. Imperial 8vo. Bound {by Kalthoeber) for pre-
sentation to Queen Charlotte, wife of George III., in crimson morocco,
ornamental gold panel on sides, gilt back, inside dentelles, zvatered silk
end-leaves, g. e. London, Printed by B. Millan, 1792. £1 lOs

794 HERVIEUX (J. C). A New Treatise of Canary-Birds. Containing the

Manner of Breeding and Coupling them, that they may have Beautiful
"^'oung Ones. With curious remarks relating to the Signs and T'auscs of
their Distempers, and the Method of Curing them. Translate^i from the
French.

i2mo, full brown levant morocco, inside dentelles, g. e., by Riviere.

London, 1718. £1 lOs

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795 HESKYNS (Thomas). The Parliament of Chryste Avouching and Declar-

ing the Enacted and receaued trueth of the presence of his bodie and
bloode in the blessed Sacrament, and of other articles concerning the
same, impugned in a wicked sermon by M. Juell, Collected and seth-
furth by Thomas Heskyns. Wi^k the large full-page woodcut.

Folio, old calf. Antwerpe, 1566. 14s

796 HEXHAM (Henry). A True and Historicall relation of the Bloody Battel!

of Nieuport in Flanders fought between Prince Maurice of Nassau and
His Highnes Albert Archduke of Austria. Wonne on the second of July,
1600. Together with a Briefe Relation of St. Francis Vere of famous
memorie his Parlie in Ostend, and the Assault, and repulse of the Arch-
dukes Armie Jan. 7, 1602.

Folio, new boards. Printed in Delff, 1641. £1 lOs

797 HEYLYH (P.). A Help to English History, containing a Succession of

all the Kings of England, the English, Saxons, and the Britains; the
Kings and Princes of Wales, the Kings and Lords of Man, and the Isle
of Wight. Together with the Names, and Ranks of the Viscounts,
Barons and Baronets of England.

Small 8vo, original calf. London, 170Q. lOs 6d

798 The Historie of the most famous Saint and Souldier of Chrict

Jesus, St. George of Cappadooia, asserted from the Fictions of the
middle ages of the Church, and opposition of the present. The Institu-
tion of the most Noble Order of St. George named the Garter.

The Second Edition, corrected and enlarged.

Small 4to, half vellum. London, 1633. £3 3s

* * * With beautiful engraved title-page.

At pages 307-8 are allusions to Sir John Falstaff and the Stage.

Contains Paraphrase of Shakespeare's ** All the World's a Stage."

799 HEYWOOD (Thomas). The Actors Vindication. Containing Three Brief

Treatises, viz. : —

L Their Antiquity.
II. Their Antient Dignity.
III. The True Use of their Quality.

Small 4to, full calf, newly bound by Riviere. Circa 1655. £10 lOs

Good clean copy, but the headlines of some leaves cut into.

*♦* A most important volume concerning Stage Plays during the early years of the
Seventeenth Cfentury.

Among the preliminarj^ verses, in praise of the Author and his book, is a poem by

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Hey wood (Thomas) — continued.

Hey wood himself, which is a paraphrase of Shakiespeare's '* All the World's a
Stage," as follows: —

The Author to his Booke.

'' The World's a Theater, the earth a Stage,
Which God and Nature doth with Actors fill.
Kings have their entrance in due equipage.
And some their part play well and others ill.
The best no better are (in this Theater,)
Where every humour's fitted in his kinde,
This a true Subject acts, and that a Traytor,
The first applauded, and the last confin'd,
This playes an honest man, and that a knave.
A gentle person this, and he a clown,
One man is ragged, and another brave :
All men have parts, and each man acts his own.
She a chast Lady acteth all her life, -

; A wanton Curtezan another playes,

This, covets marriage love, that, nuptial strife.

Both in continuall action spend their dayes.

Some Citizens, some Souldiers, born to adventure,

Shepheards and Sea-men, then our play's begun,

When we are born and to the world first enter ;

And all finde- Exits when their parts are done.

If then the world a Theater present.

As by the roundnesse it appears most fit,

Built with star galleries of high ascent.

In which Jehove doth as spectator sit.

And chief determiner to applaud the best.

And their indeavours crown with more than merit,

But by their evill actions doomes the rest,

To end disgrac't whilst others praise inherit.

He that denies then theatres should be,

He may as well deny a world to me."

800 A Challenge for Beautie, as it hath beene sundry times Acted,

By the Kings Majesties Servants : At the Blacke-friers, and at the Globe
on the Banke-side.

First Edition. Small 4to. Fiyte Copy in full morocco^ g. e.^ by
Riviere. London, Printed by R. Raivorth, 1636. £26

801 The Exemplary Lives and Memorable Acts of Nine the most

Worthy women of the World : Three Jewes, Three Gentiles, Three Chris-
tians.

First Edition. Illustrated with the series of 6 beautiful full-page
portraits.

Small 4to, full calf, g. e., by Riviere {slight repair to title).

London, 1640. £10 lOs

*.** Interspersed with Poetry. The ''Worthy Women" are:

Deborah the Prophetess Boadicea Elphleda

Judith of Bethulia Penthesilaea Queen Margaret

Queen Esther Artimesia Queen Elizabeth

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Heywood (Thomas) — continued.

802 The Fair Maid of the West, or A Girle worth Gold. The Fir^t

part as it was lately acted before the King and Queen, with approved
liking.

First Edition. Small 4to, full calf gilt, g. e.

London, 16^1. £27 lOs

803 The Hierarchie of the Blessed Angells, their Names, Orders and

Officers, the Fall of Lucifer with his Angells.

Engraved title and 9 full-fage engravings.

First Edition. Folio, full calf gilt.

London, Printed by Adam I slip, 1635. £6 lOs

This contains the verses descriptive of the early dramatists (including Shakespeare) : —
" Our modern poets to that passe are driven
Those names are curtailed which they first had given
And as we wish to have their memories drowned
We scarcely can afford them halfe their sound,
Greene who had in both academies tane (taken)
Degree of Master, yet could never gaine
To be called more than Robin : who had he
Profest ought, saved the muse, served and been free
With credit too, gone Robert to his grave.
Mario, renowned for his rare art and wit
Could ne'er attain beyond the name of Kit
Altho' his ' Hero and Leander ' did
Merit addition rather. Famous Kidd
Was called but Tom. Tom Watson (tho' he wrote
Able to make Apollo's selfe to dote
Upon his muse) for all that he could strive
Yet never could to his full name arrive.
Tom Nash, in his time of no small esteeme,
Could not a second syllable redeeme
Excellent Bewmont, in the foremost ranke
Of the rarest wits, was never more than Frank.
Mellifluous Shakespeare whose inchanting quill
Commanded mirth or passion, was but Will.
' And famous Jonson though his learned pen

• Be dipt in Castaly, is still but Ben." Etc.

804 The Life of Merlin, sirnamed Ambrosius.

His Prophesies, and Predictions Interpreted; and their truth made good
by our English Annalls, being a Chronographicall History of all the
Kings, and memorable passages of this Kingdorne, from Brute to the
Reign of our Royall Soveraigne King Charles; a Subject never published
in this kind before, and deserves to be knowne and observed by all men.

Engraved frontispiece.

First Edition. Small 4to, full levant morocco gilt, g. e., by Riviere.
London, 1641. £12 12s

Cited bv Farmer in his Notes on " Hamlet."

MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. 171

Heywood (Thomas) — continued.

805 A Preparative to Study; or, the Vertue of Sack.

4to, half bound. Printed Anno Doni. 164 1. £12 12s

* * * A very scarce poetical tract of four leaves, being an enthusiastic praise of Sack.
It begins : —

" Fetch me Ben Jonson's Scull, and fill't with sack,
Rich as the same he drank, when the whole packe
Of Jolly Sisters pledg'd and did agree
It was no sinne to be as drunke as hee."

It is the first separate publication dealing with Falstaff's favourite beverage.

Consult Drake's " Shakespeare and his Times," Vol. II., pages 180-183.

806 The Rape of Luorece.

A true Roman Tragedy, with the several! Songs in their apt places,
by Valerius the merry Lord among the Roman Peeres. The copy re-
vised, and sundry Songs before omitted, now inserted in their right
places. Acted by Her Majesties Servants at the Red Bull.

Small 4to, half morocco. London, 1638. £21

* * * In this Edition tliere are Five Additional Songs.

*** A very popular Play, largely so because of the comic songs of the '' Merry Lord
Valerius." It is quoted by Malone in his edition of King Lear.

80; HICKES (G.). Devotions in the Ancient Way of Offices with Psalms,
Hymns, and Prayers for Every Day of the Week and Every Holiday in
the Year. Reformed by a Person of Quality. Frontispiece.

8vo, original calf. London, iyo6. lOs 6d

Familiarly termed Hickes's Devotions, but the original author was John Austin. The
above adaptation to the English Church was by Mrs. Susannah Hopton. The Pre-
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808 HIGDEN'S POLYCHRONICON, ( . . From the Prohemye): PolycroniGon
in whiche book ben comprised briefly many wonderful historyees . . .
unto the begynnyng of the Regno of Kyng Edward the Fourth . . .

after the composynge and gaderynge of Dan Ranulph monke of Chestre
fyrste auctour of this book and afterwards Englisshed by one Trevisa
Vycarye of Barkley.

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coude finde fro thende that the said Ranulph fynysshed his book which
was the yere of our Lord 1357 unto the year of the same 1460, which ben
an honderd and thre yere . . . and where the sayd Auctor hath alle
his werke in seven bookes, I have sette that whiche I added to after aparte
and have marked it the last booke.

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172 MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W.

Higden's Polychronicon — continued.

from various earlier sources, and was translated into English in 1387 by John of
Trevisa, chaplain to the Earl of Berkeley. Caxton revised the whole of this, and
continued the chronicle up to the year 1460, this continuation being the only impor-
tant piece of Caxton' s own composition which we possess.
All the known copies lack the blank leaves, and only about six perfect copies, as
regards text, are known. The present copy is a fine one, only lacking ten printed
leaves, which are supplied in excellent facsimile, and a small portion of two other
leaves also in facsimile.

Printed by Wynkyn de Worde.

809 HIGDEN (Ranulphus). Polycronycon.

With colophon^ " And here I make an ende of this Lytyll werke as
nyghe as I can fynde after the fourme of the werke to fore made by
Ranulph Monke of Chestre. And where as there is fawte, I beseche theym
that shall rede it to correct it. For if I cowde have founde moo storyes,
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philosopher : —

" Here wyse men J telle that Pictagoras passed somtyme by a smythes hous and herde
a swete sowne and accordynge in the smytyng of four hamers upon an anuelt, and
therefore he lette weye the hamers, and found that one of the hamers weyed — six
poude, the seconde of twelve, the thyrde of eight, the fourth of ix. as this fygure
sheweth^"

From thence inferring the concords of music, Wynkyn de Worde first printed this
scheme.

Hain 8660. Duff 173. Proctor 9698.

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810 HIGDEN (Ralph). Polycronycon.

(This is the whole of the title, and is printed in red ink, over a large
woodcut representing St. George and the Dragon, below which is the
device of John Reynes.) Translated into English by John of Trevisa.

Black Letter, woodcuts and woodcut initials.

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pences of John Reynes hoke seller at the sygne of saynt George in Poules
chyrchyarde. The yere of our lorde God M.CCCCC & xxvii the xvi daye
of Maye. (1527). £18 18s

* * * At the back of the title are the verses entitled : —

'' An Introductorie Anno dni. M.CCCC.LXXXXV." (1495).

The last leaf, which contains the Colophon, etc., is in facsimile.

Dibdin considers the title with the woodcut of St. George slaying the dragon '' the most
magnificent title-page of which the early Annals of English printing can boast."

811 HiGGONS (Bevill). The Generous Conqueror: or, The Timely Discovery,

a Tragedy.

First Edition. Small 4to, half calf. London, 1702. £1 Is

812 HILL (Aaron). Merope: a tragedy. Acted at the Theatre-Royal, Drury-

Lane.

8vo, new boards. London, 1749. 12s 6d

Garrick played the part of Eumenes.

813 HITCHCOCK (R.). A Pollitique Piatt for the honour of the Prince,

the greate profite of the publique state, relief of the poore, preservation
of the riche, reformation of Roges & Idle persones, & the wealthe of
thousandes that knowes not howe to live, written for an Newyeres Gift
to Englande, & the inhabitantes thereof, by Robert Hitchcok, late of
Caversseelde in the Countie of Buckyngham, Gentleman.

Engraved title, woodcut Coat of Arms on reverse, and folding table.

Small 4to, full calf.

Imprinted at London by Jhon Kyngston, 1580. £10 lOs

Wants map between e and f, also folding woodcut between fii. and fiii.

*** The author's object in writing this work was to encourage the fisheries.

From the Library of Queen Anne.

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land, represented to the dissenting ministers.

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Queen, ** A. R.,'^ repeated at each outer angle of the sides.

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815 HOBBES (Thomas). Leviathan; or, The Matter, Forme, and Power of A

Common Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil. Engraved frontispiece.

First Edition and a Large Paper Copy, with the four preliminary
leaves (as originally issued) margined to size.

Large folio, original calf.

London^ Printed for Andrew Crooke, 165 1. £7 7s

* * * Few books have occasioned more or fiercer controversy than this production of
the philosopher of Malmsbury. It is an able, learned, but most paradoxical and
irreligious performance. Its principles would justify all social disorder and all im-
piety. But the scales of the Leviathan are very hard to penetrate, and have injured
most of the weapons which have been tried upon it. Lord Clarendon " surveyed •'
it, and Bishop Bramhall endeavoured to ''catch" it; but the monster still lived,
exercising the ingenuity and courage of many a successive comljatant. The most
formidable of his antagonists were : Cumberland, in his work "De Legibus Naturae,"
and Cudworth, in the " Intellectual System." (William Orme.)

816 HOCUS POCUS. Dean (H.). The Whole Art of Legerdemain; or, Hocus

Pocus in Perfection; to which is now added abundance of New and Rare
Inventions. Curious woodcuts of conjuring experiments.

i2mo, cloth. London, 1785. £1 8s

'' Shakespeare's " Edition.

81; HOLINSHED (Raphael). Chronicles of England, Sootlande, and Irelande.

Conteyning, the Description and Chronicles of England, from the
first inhabiting unto the conquest. Until this present time 1577. The
description and Chronicles of Scotland, from the first original! of the
Scottes nation, till the yeare of our Lorde 1571. The description and
Chronicles of Yreland, likewise from the firste original! of that Nation,
vntil the yeare 1547. Faithfully gathered and compiled by Raphaell
Holinshed.

Black Letter, ivith the several ivoodcut titles and numerous woodcut
illustrations.

2 yols., folio, russia {so7ne marginal notes cut into).

Imprinted for John Hunne, 1577. £75

*** In Sig. Eeee of Vol. 11 is an extra leaf with "The Names of the Knights made
at Leith," and in Yyyy occurs a folded plan of the Siege of Edinburgh Castle (this
latter is defective).

THIS, THE FIRST EDITION, USUALLY CALLED SHAKESPEARE'S EDITION,
CONTAINS NUMEROUS WOODCUTS, NONE OF WHICH WERE REPRO-
DUCED IN THE SECOND.

At p. 243 of the history of Scotland occurs a curious woodcut of the meeting of Macbeth
and the witches.

Few books in early English Literature are more difficult to procure in a clean and
perfect state than Holinshed's Chronicles.

^* The * Chronicles ' form a very valuable repertory of historical information. The

MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. 175

Holinshed (Raphael) — continued.

enormous number of authorities cited attests Holinshed' s and his successors' in-
dustry. The style is clear, although never elevated, and the chronicler fully justi-
fied his claim * to have had an especial eye unto the truth of things,' although his
protestant bias is very marked throughout and his treatment of early times is very
uncritical. The patriotic tone of the book led Holinshed 's assistants to insist so
strenuously on the rights of the English sovereigns to exact homage from the Scot-
tish rulers, that Sir Thomas Craig was moved to write a reply entitled ' De Hominio,'
in 1605.

'* The Elizabethan dramatists drew many of their plots from Holinshed's pages, and
nearly all Shakespeare's historical plays (as well as ' Macbeth,' ' King Lear,' and
part of ' Cymbeline ') are based on Holinshed's ' Chronicles.' At times (as in the
two parts of ' Henry IV.') Shakespeare adopted not only Holinshed's facts, but some
of his phrases. Many extracts from Holinshed's work have been printed by the
editors of Shakespeare's historical plays, to illustrate the sources of his informa-
tion." (D.N.B.)

The First Regular Series of English Portraits.

818 HOLLAND (Henry). Heroologia Anglica,

hoc est clarissimorum et doctissimorum aliquot Anglorum, qui floruerunt
ab Anno Cristi MD. usq. ad presentem Annum. MDCXX. vivae Effigies,
Vitae et Elogia, duobus Tomes.

Authore : H. H. Anglo-Britanno.

Impensis Cris-pini Passaei Calcographi et Jansofiii Bibliopolae. 1620.

Verheiden (Jac). Praestantium aliquot. Theologorum qui Rom. Anti-
christum Effigies.

Hague. 1602.

The two Works in one volume. Small folio, old calf. £21

* * * Two very rare Collections of Portraits, many of them engraved by the family of
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The first Work is the first Regular Series of English heads (as usual it has not the
'' post prefatio " and Gruter's Latin Verses). The title is within a beautifully
engraved emblematic border, with a small circular map of England at top and a view
of London below. The portraits are 67 in number, and include : —

Henry VIII., Edward VI., Sir Philip Sydney,

Cromwell, Earl of Essex, Lady Jane Grey, Sir Richard Grenville^

Sir Thomas More, Queen Elizabeth, Thomas Cavendish,

Cardinal Wolsej-, Earl of Pembroke, Sir Martin Frobisher,

Cardinal Pole, Earl of Essex, John Hawkins,

W. Tindal, Sir Humphrey Gilbert, Sir F. Drake,

Bishop Latimer, Nicholas Ridley, Cranmer. Etc., etc.

The Second Work (by Verherden) contains 50 portraits, including : —

John Wycliffe, Erasmus, Grynaeus,

John Huss, Luther, Sebastian Munster,

•Hieronymus, Melancthon, Martin Bucer,

Savonarola, Bugenhagen, Knox,

Cranmer, Jonas, Calvin. Etc.

Joannes Lascus. Cruciger,

176 MAGGS BROS., 34 & 33, Conduit Street, London, W.

$19 HOLLAND. True Newes from one of Sir Fraunoes Veres Gompanie, con-
cerning Delftes Isle, and sundry other Towns in the Lowe Countries,
yielded to the General since May last. Of the great Armie, nowe com-
minge out of Germanic for the aide of the French King, and their hope
for the speedye winninge of Antwerp, etc.

Small 4to. A fine copy , full calf gilt. London, 1591. £9 9s

820 William I., Prince of Orange. The Patriot, being a Dramatick

History of the Life and Death of William the first, Prince of Orange,
founder of the Republic of Holland.

'^vn^XS. 6f\.Q, new boards. London, 1736. 7s 6d

82 1 HOLYDAY (Barten). Decimus Junius Juvenalis and Aulus Persius Flaccus.

Translated and Illustrated as well with Sculpture as Notes.

Small folio. Numerous copperplate engravings. Original calf, re-
backed. London, 1673. 18s

S22 HOMER. His Odysses. Translated, Adorn'd with Sculpture, and Illus-
trated with Annotations, by John Ogilby.

Portrait of Ogilby by Lombart, beautiful frontispiece, and the series
of 24 full-page engravings, besides beautiful Jteadpieces and large initial
letters, all brilliant impressions.

Large folio, original calf.

London, Printed by Tho7nas Roycroft, for the Author, 1665. £2 2s

823 A Burlesque Translation of Homer.

The Third Edition, greatly enlarged and improved.

With frontispieces.

2 vols., i2mo, original calf. London, 1770. 5s

824 HOMILIES OF EDWARD Vi. Certayne Sermons or Homilies appoynted

by the Kynges Maiestie (Edward VI) to be declared and redde by all
Persones, Vicars, or Curates every Sundayye in their Churches where
they have Cure.

Black Letter, small 4to, old calf gilt.

London, R. Grafton, i^/^y. £2 2s

The first book of Homilies written by Bp. Cranmer. Wants title, and the first seven
and last leaf cut short and damaged. At the end are Prayers against the Plague,
.3 pp.

MAGCS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, VV. 177

825 HOOKE (R.). Micrographia; or Some Physiological Descriptions of

Minute Bodies made by Magnifying Glasses. With Observations and
Inquiries thereupon.

First Edition. Folio. Fine copy in contemporary calf.

London ^ Printed by Jo. Martyn and J a. Allestry, 1665. £7 10s

* ** Illustrated with numerous copperplate engravings, including the large folding
plate of a Magnified Flea, a Louse, and Bookworm.

" This book is full of ingenious ideas and singular anticipations. It contained the
earliest investigation of the ' fantastical colours ' of thin plates, with a quasi-
explanation by interference, the first notice of the ' black spot ' in soap-bubbles,
and a theory of li^ht, as ' a very short vibrative motion ' transverse to straight lines
of propagation through a * homogeneous medium.' Heat was defined as ' a property
of a body arising from the motion or agitation of its parts ' and the real nature of
combustion was pointed out in detail, eleven years before the publication of Mayow's
similar discovery." — (D. N. B.)

826 Micrographia. Another Edition.

Folio. A Magnificent Copy bound by Dtisseiiil in full crimson
morocco y gilt backs, g. e.

London, Printed for John Martyn, Printer to the Royal Society,
1667. £16 16s

* * * From the Library of Louis Henri, Comte de Lomenie, with his Arms in gold
on sides.

827 HOOPER (John). A Declaratyon of the Ten Holy Commaundementes of

Almyghtye God.

First Edition. Black Letter. i2mo, old calf.
London, 1550. £7 lOs

* * * By John Hooper, Bishop of Gloucester, one of the advanced Reformers of the
Church of England. Deprived of his See by Queen Mary and sentenced for heresy,
burned at Gloucester 1555.

828 HOPKINS (Charles). Boadicea, Queen of Britain. A Tragedy.

First Edition. Small 4to, boards. London, 1697. £2 5s

829 The Court Prospect; a Poem. Dedicated to Her Grace the

Dutchess of Ormond.

23 pp., small 4to, paper covers. London, i6gg. £1 5s

830 PyrrhUS, King of Epirus. A Tragedy, acted in the New Theatre,

in Little Lincoln' s-Inn-Fields, by His Majesty's Servants.

First Edition. Small 4to, half calf. London, 1695. ^^ 5s

178 MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W.

Sarum Horae. Printed on Vellum.

831 HOR/E. Qfflcium Beatae Mariae Virginis Ad usum Sarum cum pluribus

devotis orationibus & contemplationibus impressum caracteribus, iiguris
ac mortis accidentia noviter additis.

Printed 071 vellum throughoi^t in red and blacky with magnificent
woodcut borders to every page, and many fine full-page and other wood-
cuts, initial letters and printer' s marks.

Svo, old French citroji morocco, with gilt line ornaynents on sides,
fine gold tooling at inner angles, and the words on sides " Deus nos
redimp,'' ** Doride de se Limer,'' gilt back, g. e.

Paris, Sijnon Vostre (15 12).

(See Illustration, Plate No. XI.) £150

* * * A remarkably fine copy of this excessively scarce book both as regards the in-
terior state of preservation and the tasteful and delicate old French morocco binding.

There is much English in this book, including several pages at end, '' The Contentis
of thys booke," and several rubrics and prayers.

The woodcuts are magnificent and comprise a superb series of the " Dance of Death."

832 HORACE. Ridout (Thos. H.). Poems and Translations.

4to, new boards. London, i/i/. 16s 6d

*** Contains translations of Horace's Odes. Book 1, Odes 5, 9, 27. Book 2, Ode 3,
and Episode 13.

Pine's Horace.

83^ Quinti Horatii Flaoci Opera. Aeneis Tabulis Incidit Johannes

Pine.

Engraved throughout {over 500 pages), nearly every page embellished
with a beautiful vignette engraving from Antique Gems, Statuary, Bas-
Reliefs, etc.

2 vols., royal Svo, full dark green levant morocco extra, gilt edges,
by Riviere. London, Johannes Pine, 1733. £16 16s

A VERY TALL AND FINE COPY of the FIRST ISSUE, having the error on the
medal at page 108, Vol. II. '' Caesar post est " for " Caesar potest."

834 HORN BOOK, or Battledore.

The base of wood, the bottom part cut into a handle after the manner
of hand-mirrors.

On the upper side is a leaf of paper or vellum upon whicii (now faml
with age) are the Alphabet in Capitals and small letters and the Lord' s
Prayer. This leaf is covered with a sheet of transparent horn bordered
with a rim of brass and fastened with small nails.

Size (including handle) 8 inches by 4 inches. Circa 1730. £15 15s

*** Horn Books or "Battledores" were in '' Byegone Days" the popular method
of teaching the children to read. Shakespeare refers to them in " Love's Labour
Lost." "Yes, yes; he teaches boys the hornbook," It was thus the first and
most elementary primer for infants in Shakespeare's day.

MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. r/g

835 HOWELL (J.). Cottoni Posthuma: Divers Choice Pieces of that Renowned

Antiquary Sir Robert Cotton, Knight and Baronet, Preserved from the
injury of Time, and Expos'd to public Hght, for the benefit of Posterity.

First Edition. Smsll Svo, original calf . London, 165 1. 15s

836 Dodona'S Grove; or. The Vocall Forest. Second Part.

Wi^/t frontisfiece and three folding plates of trees.

First Edition. Small 8vo, original calf. London, 1650. £3 3s

S37 Epistolae Ho-Elianae. Familiar Letters, Domestic and Forren,

Divided into sundry Sections, partly Historicall, Politicall, Philosophicall.

With a fourth volume of New Letters, never published before.

Together in i vol. , thick small Svo, original calf.

London, 1655. £1 10s

858 An Exact History of the late Revolutions in Naples and of their

Monstrous Successes not to be parallel' d by any Antient or Modern
History.

Published by the Lord Alexander Giraffi in Italian and (for the rare-
ness of the subject) Rendred to English by J. H.
Frontispiece by Cross.

The two parts complete in i vol. Small Svo, origi?ial calf.

London, 1664. 15s

839 Lustra Ludovici; or, the Life of the late Victorious King of France

Lewis the XIII (and of his Cardinall de Richelieu).

First Edition. Folio, original calf. London, 1646. £2 15s

* * * Dedicated to Prince Charles, with the fine oval portrait by Glover.

840 The Nuptialls of Peleus and Thetis.

Consisting of a Mask and a Comedy, or' the Great Roy all Ball, acted
lately in Paris Six Times by

The King in Person; The Duke of Anjou; The Duke of Yorke; and
divers other Noble Men, also by

The Princess Royall Henriete Marie,
The Princess of Conty,
The Dutchess of Roquelaure,
The Dutchess of Crequy.

With many other Ladies of Honour.

First Edition. A fine and tall copy. Small 4to, full polished calf
gilt, g. e., by Riviere. London, 1654. ^3*

*** This Masque was incorporated by Lord Lansdowne in his version of the "Mer-
chant of Venice," which was acted in 1701 for the benefit of Dryden's family.

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841 [HOWARD (Sir Robert).] Historical Observations Upon the Reigns of

Edward L, II., III., and Richard II. With remarks upon their Faithful
Counsellors and False Favourites. Written by a Person of Honour.

i2mo, original calf. London, 1689. "^'Os 6d

842 HUARTES (Juan). Examen de Ingenios; or, the Tryal of Wits, dis-

covering the great Difference of Wits among Men, and what Sort of
Learning suits best with each Genius.

8vo, original calf. London, i6g8. 10s 6d

843 HUBERT (Sir F). The Deplorable Life and Death of Edward the Second,

King of England, together with the Downefall of the two Unfortunate
favorits Gavestone and Spencer.

Storied in an Excellent Poem.

First Edition {no portrait). i2mo, old calf (rebacked).

London, 1628. I&s

844 HULTON (Thomas, Head of the Commission to Enforce the Stamp Act

in America). A Poem, Addressed to a Young Lady. In three Parts.

Part I. Descriptive and Moral

Part 2. Of Love and Friendship.

Part 3. The Caution.

First Edition. Small 4to, new boards

Privately Printed. Boston, 1773. £3 3s

845 HUMPHREY (Lawrence). loannis luelli Angli, Episcopi Sarisburiensis

vita & mors, eiusq; verae doctrinae defensio, cum refutatione quorundam
obiectorum, Thomae Hardingi, Nicol. Sanderi, Alani Copi, Hieronymi
Osorij Lusitani, Pontaci Burdegalensis.

Small 4to, calf. London, 1573. £2 2s

* * * The Life of John Jewell, Bishop of Salisbury ; dedicated to Archbishop Parker
and Bishop Sandys, at whose request the book was written. With preliminary
rerses in Latin, Greek, and Hebrew.

846 HUNGARY. A Prospect of Hungary and Transylvania; together with an

Account of the qualities of the Inhabitants, the Commodities of the
Countries, the Chiefest Towns and Strongholds; with Historical Narra-
tion of the bloody Wars amongst themselves, and with the lurks. (Wants
the map).

Small 4to, sezved. Lojidon, 1664. 14s

MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. 181

84; HYDROPHOBIA. James (R., M.D.). A New Method of Preventing and
Curing the Madness caused by the Bite of a mad Dog. Laid before the
Royal Society, in February, 1741.

Small 4to, full 7ieiv mottled calf^ g. e. London, 1743. 18s

84^8 HYMNS. The Litany-Book, according to the Manner of Singing, at pre-
sent mostly in use among the Brethren, again revised, and in this con-
venient Form set forth by the Brethren's Chan tor.

Small 8vo, original calf. London, 1759. 18s

849 IDES (E. Y.). Three Years' Travels from Moscow over-land to China,

thro' Great Ustiga, Siriana, Permia, Siberia, Davur, Great Tartary, &c.,
to Peking; with description of the Countries, and the Customs of the
Barbarous Inhabitants ; to which is annexed an accurate Description of
China.

Large folding map and many folding -plates. 4to, calf neat,

London, 1706. £2 2s

850 INDIA. Mandevife (Sir John). The Voyages and Travels: Wherein is

set down the Way to the Holy Land, and to Hierfisalem : As also to
the Lands of the Great Caan, and of Prestor John; to India, and divers
other Countries: Together with many and strange Marvels therein.

Illustrated with a great number of crude woodcuts*

Small 4to, calf, gilt. Londofz, 1722. £8 8s

85 I INGLIS (Mrs. Richmond). Anna & Edgar; or, Love & Ambition. A Tale.

Thin small 4to. Handsomely bound by Scott of Edinburgh, with
his ticket, in full critnson morocco extra, the back gilt tooled, with
desigjts of Roses and Harps, the sides richly gilt tooled, consisting of
corner ornamentations , including musical instruments, two oval-shaped
designs, cojnposed. of leaves and flowers, together ivith a Female figure,
holding lance and shield, beneath which is a C hippeftdale ornament,
cojttainiitg a bird. g. e. Edinburgh, 1781. £25

An exceedingly fine example of Scotch 18th Century Binding.

852 INVASIONS. A History of all the Real and Threatened Invasions of

England from the Landing of Julius Caesar to the present period, to
which is added A Mode of Defending the Kingdom, with an epitome of
Military Horsemanship, and General Tactics.

8vo, calf. Windsor, 1794. 8s 6d

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IRELAND.

853 Cromwellian Act. An Act for the Assuring, Confirming and Setting o1

Lands and Estates in Ireland.

Black Letter. 21 pp. Folio, new boards.
London, '1657. £2 10s

854 Fitz-Gerald (David). A Narrative of the Irish Popish Plot, for the betray-

ing of that Kingdom into the hands of the French, massacring all Eng-
lish Protestants there, and utter subversion of the Government and
Protestant Religion ; as the same was successively carryed on from the
year 1662.

Folio, boards. London, 1680. 18s

855 Hamilton (Andrew). A True Relation of the Actions of the Inniskilling

Men, from their first taking up of Arms in December, 1688, for the
Defence of the Protestant Religion,, and their Lives and Liberties.

Small 4to, neiv boards. London, i6go. £2 10s

856 Howgill (Francis) and Burrough (Edw). The Visitation of the Rebellious

Nation of Ireland, etc. Also some particular Papers, written in that
Nation, to several! sorts of people.

38 pp., small 4to, new boards.

London, Printed for Giles Calvert, 1656. £1 Is

857 Hutchinson (Rt. Hon. J. Hely). The Commercial Restraints of Ireland

considered, in a series of Letters to a Noble Lord. Containing an his-
torical Account of the Affairs of that Kingdom, so far as they relate to
this subject.

8vo, original calf.

Dublin, Printed by William Railhead, 1779. £1 8s

William and Mary Proclamation.

858 Invasion of Ireland by the French. Whereas the French King hath lately

Caused Our Kingdom of Ireland in a Hostile manner to be Invaded by
a great number of Officers, Soldiers, and others, and hath raised and
Carried on a War against Us in Our said Kingdom, and furnished Our
Rebellious Subjects there with Arms, Ammunition, and Money, to the
apparent Danger and Hazard of that Our Kingdom. Etc.

Broadside, printed on one side of a folio sheet.

London, i68g. £2 10s

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Ireland — continued.

S59 Irish Forfeitures. Pamphlets on.

Bound in i vol., small 4to, half calf. 17001701. £2 12s 6cl

» Includes : —

N A Short View of both Reports in relation to the Irish Forfeitures, 1701. — The Case
of the Forfeitures in Ireland fairly stated, with the Reasons that induced the Pro-
testants there to Purchase them, 1700. — Report of the Commissioners appointed
by Parliament to enquire into the Irish Forfeitures (Dec. 15, 1699), published in
1700. — Second Report of the Trustees for the sale of Forfeited Estates in Ireland,

(1701. — Letter to a Member of Parliament relating to the Irish Forfeitures, 1701. —
Short Remarks upon the late Act of Resumption of the Irish Forfeitures, and upon
the manner of putting that Act in Execution, 1701 .^-Jus Regium : or the Kings
Right to Grand Forfeitures, 1701.

The Irish Rebellion

860 The Kings Maiesties Speech in the House of Lords m Parliament on Tues-

day the 14 day of Decemb. 1641. For the raising of Forces to reduce
the Irish Rebels to a Loyall subjection.

Also a Letter sent by the Lord chief e Justices of Ireland to the House
of Parliament, Decemb. 14, 1641, concerning their miserable and dis-
tressed estate in the County of Conno; the Rebels being within 4 miles
of Dublin.

Likewise the Copie of a Letter sent from the Major of Plimmeuth,
discribing the insatiable Cruelty of the Rebels done to the Protestants
in all places where they come.

6 pp., small 4to, unbound.

London, Printed for John Greensjnith, 1641. £1 10s

861 Irish Statutes. A Collection of all the Statutes Now m Use; With Notes

in the Margin. And a Continuation of the Statutes made in the Reign
of the late King Charles the First of ever blessed Memory : And likewise
the Acts of Settlement and Explanation, with the rest of the Acts, made
in the Reign of His Majestic that now is, Charles the Second, by the
Grace of God, of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, King, to the
Dissolution of the Parliament, the Seventh of August, 1666. As also
a Necessary Table or Kalendar to the Whole Work, Expressing in Titles
the principal Matter therein contained, for the Ease and Advantage of
the Reader.

Printed in Black Letter. Folio, old calf {rebacked).

Dublin, Printed by Benjamin Tooke, 1678. £4 10s

*** This commences with the Acts and Ordinances in the Parliament of Kilkenny,
in the Third Year of the Reign of King Edward the Second, 1310; and concludes
with the Statutes made in the Reign of King Charles the Second.

i84 MAGGS BROS , 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W

Ireland — continued.

862 Popish Plot. The information of Eustace Comyne, Servant to IV

Keadagh Magher, Treasurer to the Papists in Ireland, of their Mony
carry on this Horrid Plot; who was Barbarously Murthered for Discover-
ing the same, and turning Protestant. Given in Writing to the Honour-
able'House of Commons, the 15th of the present November, 1680.

7 pp., folio, unbound,

London y Printed for Thomas Fox, 1680. 15s

863 The Information of Hubert Bourk Gent. Touching the Popish

Plot in Ireland, carried on by the Conspiracies of the Earl of Tyrone,
and others his Confederates, to deliver up that Kingdom to the French
King, and Establish the Popish Religion therein. Being all matter of
Fact, delivered first by this Informant before the Lord Lieutenant and
Council in Ireland in March 1678, and to his Majesty and both Houses
of Parliament in November 1680.

27 pp., folio, unbound.

London, Printed for Randolph Taylor. N.D. 15s

864 The Informations of John Sergeant, and David Maurice, Gentle-
men; relating to the Popish Plot, (Deliver'd by them upon their respec-
tive Oaths) Reported to the House of Commons, upon Saturday the 26th
Day of March 1681. Then Ordered by the Commons in Parliament, to
be forthwith Printed.

7 pp., iolio, unbound.

London, Printed for Gabriel Kunholt, Book-Binder to His Highness
Prince Rupert, 1681. 15s

865 The Narrative of Mr. John Fitz-Gerald, late of the Order of St.

Francis, in the Kingdom of Ireland. Wherein is contained : —

1. Several things relating to the Irish Plot, Managed by Plunket
the Titular Arch-Bishop of that Kingdom (and now committed to the
Gaol of Newgate).

2. The Intrigue of Sympson Tonge, to Invalidate the Testimony
of his Father Doctor Israel Tonge, a Doctor Oates, and other of the
King's Evidences.

3. An Account of Captain Elie and their cursed Contrivance to
undermine the Protestant Religion.

4. The Strange and wonderful manner of his Conversion from
Popery, with many other Remarkable Passages.

All Published for general Satisfaction.

30 pp., folio, unbomtd.

London, Printed for Richard Janeway, 1681. 15s

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'Ireland — Popish Plot — continued. li

A Narrative of the late Popish Plot in Ireland, for the Subjugating

thereof to the French King. Together with the Proceedings against,
and Tryal of the Earl of Tyrone, and others, who were accused for
carrying on the same. Containing: —

The several Examinations of Hubbart Bourke, Edward Ivie, John
Macnemarrah, and Thomas Samson, Gent, upon Information taken
before the Lord Lieutenant and Council of Ireland.

TTie large promises of Rewards and Favours made to the Persons
aforesaid, in case they would have been induced to desist from prosecut-
ing the said Earl, and to affirm that they had been suborned by others
to accuse him.

The many Threats made to all, and Punishments inflicted upon one
of the said Witnesses after they had peremptorily declared their resolu-
tion to discover what they knew concerning the said Plot.

The manner of the Proceedings against the said Earl at Waterford-
Assizes, 1679, with the Names of the Jury, and the Discouragements the
King's Evidence met with before, at, and since the said Assizes.

By Tho. Samson, Gent., late Steward to the Earl of Tyrone.

32 pp., folio, unbound.

London, Printed for Sam. Lee and Dan. Major, 1680. 15s

A Narrative of the Irish Popish Plot, for the betraying that King

dom mto the hands of the French, Massacring all English Protestants
there, and utter Subversion of the Government and Protestant-Religion;
as the same was successively carry ed on from the Year 1662. Given in
to both Houses of Parliament. By David Fitz Gerald, Esq.

35 pp., folio, unbound.

London, Printed for Tho. Cockerill, 16^0. 15s

The Present State and Condition of Ireland, but more especially

the Province of Ulster, humbly represented to the Kingdom of England.
By Edmund Murphy, Secular Priest, and Titular Chanter of Armagh,
and one of the First Discoverers of the Irish Plot.

32 pp., folio, unbound.

London, Printed for R. Boulter, 1681. 15s

A True Narrative of the late Design of the Papists to Charge their

Horrid Plot upon the Protestants, by Endeavouring to Corrupt Captain
Bury and Alderman Brooks of Dublin, and to take off the Evidence of
Mr. Oats and Mr. Bedlow, &c. As appears by the Depositions taken
before the Right Honourable Sir Joseph Williamson, Knight, one of His
Majesties late Principal Secretaries of State; and the several Examina-
tions before Sir William Waller, Knight, one of His Majesties Justices
of the Peace.

16 pp., folio, unbound.

London, Printed for Dorman Neivrnan, 1679. 15s

J 86 MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, VV

Ireland — continued.

8;o A Narrative of the Popish Plot in Ireland, for the Murdering^HiJ

Protestants there, and the Introducing of Popery, and the Assistance
they depended upon from England. Discovered by me James Carrol,
in the Year 1672. With an Account of my Sufferings for discovering
the same. ■

12 pp., folio, unbound. «

London y Printed for Richard Janetuay^ 168 1. 15s

871 The Several informations of John Mao Namarra, Maurice Fitz-

Gerrald, and James Nash, relating to the Horrid Popish Plot m Ireland;
together with the Resolutions of the Commons m Parliament, upon the
said Informations and Message from the Lords Spiritual and Temporal
in Parliament. Thursday the 6th of January, 1680.
15 pp., folio, unbound.
London y Printed for John Wright, 1680. 15s

S;2 Musgrave (Sir R.). A Concise Account of the Material Events and Atroci-
ties which occurred in the Late Rebellion, with the Causes which produced
them; and An Answer to Veritas's vindication of the Ronian Catholic
Clergy of the Town of Wexford. By Veridicus.

Third Edition, corrected and enlarged. 8vo, new boards^ uncut.

Dublin, 1799. 15s

873 The Reduction of Ireland to the Crown of England. A Brief Account of

the Rebellion, 1641. Also, The Original of the Universitie of Dublin,
and the Colledge of Physicians.

With folding frontispiece. Small 8vo, original calf.

London, 1675. '^S

874 Story (George). An Impartial History of the Wars of Ireland, With a

Continuation thereof. In T\vo' Parts. From the Time that Duke Schoii-
berg Landed with an Army in that Kingdom, to the 23d of March, 169^,
when Their Majesties Proclamation was published, declaring the War to
be ended.

Illustrated with Copper Scidptures describing the inost Important
Places of Action.

Together with some Remarks upon the Present State of that KingdoDi.

By George Story, Chaplain to the Regiment formerly Sir Tho.
Gower's, now the Earl of Drogheda's, an Eyewitness of the most
Remarkable Passages.

Illustrated with 1 2 folding maps.

Small 4to, original calf . London, 1693. £4 4s

* * * Story was an eye-witness, and has intermixed in the work many curious accounts
of the customs and traditions of the several provinces and counties through whicli
the army passed.

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Ireland — continued.

Temple (Sir John). The Irish Rebellion; or a History of the beginnings
and first Progress of the General RebelHon raised within the Kingdom
of Ireland, Oct. 23, 1641, together with the Barbarous Cruelties and
Bloody Massacres which ensued thereupon.

Small 4to, half calf. London^ 1646. 18s

The Irish Rebellion; or an History of the Beginnings and First

Progress of the General Rebellion raised within the Kingdom of Ireland,
upon the Three and twentieth day of October, in the Year, 1641.

Small 8vo, original calf. Londo7iy 1679. ^"^ ''s

Trinity College, Dublin. Technethyramb^la; sive Poema in Patricium
Murphaeum S. S. & Ind. Trin. Collegii Dub. Subjanitorem. Authore
Gulielmo Dunkin.

With the translation " Technethyrambeia or, a Poem on Paddy
Murphy, Under-Porter of T. C. Dublin," by Joseph Cowper.

i2Tiio, sewn. Dublin, 1730. lOs 6(1

Walker (George). A True Account of the Siege of London-Derry.

The Third Edition Corrected.

Small 4to, new boards. London , 1689 £1 8s

A Vindication of the True Account of the Siege of Derry m

Ireland.

34 pp., small 4to, neiu boards. London, 1689. £2 5s

Mr. John Mackenzyes Narrative of the Siege of London-Derry a

False Libel; in Defence of Dr. George Walker.

18 pp., small 4to, neiv boards. London, 1690. £1 8s

Mackenzie (John). A Narrative of the Siege of London-Derry; or

the late Memorable Transactions of that City. Faithfully represented,
to Rectifie the Mistakes, and supply the Omissions of Mr. Walker's
Account.

Small 4to, nezu boards. London, 1690. £2 5s

Reflections on a Paper Pretending to be An Apology for the

Failures charged on Mr. Walker's Account of the Siege of London-Derry.
20 pp., small 4to, new boards. London, 1789. £1 8s

1 Ware (Sir James). The Whole Works of, concerning Ireland, revised and
improved. Plates.

3 vols, in 2, folio, original calf. Dublin, 1739-45. £9 9s

Vol. 1. The History of the Bishops of that Kingdom, and such matters Ecclesiastical

and Civil in which they were concerned.
Vol. 2. The Antiquities of Ireland.
Vol. 3. The Writers of Ireland. (1) Such Writers who were born in that Kingdom.

(2) Such who, though Foreigners, enjoyed Preferments or ojffices there, or had their

Education in it.

188 MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London. W.

384 IRELAND (W. H.). Shakespeare Forgeries. Passages selected by Dis

tinguished Personages, on the Great Literary Trial of \^ortigern anc
Rowena.

4 vols, in 2, i2mo, original calf. London, 17.95. 10s 6(

385 ITALY. A Discourse on the Dukedom of Modena, containing the Origine

.\ntiquity. Government, Manners, & Qualities of the People, as also fcb
Temperature of the Climate, with the Nature & Fertility of the Soil.

Small 4to, neiu green levant morocco gilt, ivith Arms on front ana.
hack covers. Fine uncut copy. London, 1674. £4- 4s

S86 A True and Exact Relation of the Late Prodigious Earthquake

& Eruption of Mount /Etna; or, Monte-Gibello; as it came in a Letter
written to his Majesty from Naples by the Right Honorable the Earle of
Winchilsea. Together with a more particular Narrative of the same-,
as it is collected out of severall Relations sent from Catania.

With folding frontispiece. 30 pp., small 4to, neiu boards.

Printed by T, 'Neivcomh in the Savoy, 1669. 14s

887 iZACKE (S. and R.). Remarkable Antiquities of the City of Exeter,

giving an account of the Laws, Customs, with a Catalogue of all the
Bishops, Mayors, and Sheriffs from 1049, onwards.

Illustrated with a map and copper-plates of the Coats of Arms.

8vo, morocco, g. e. London, 1724. 15s

S88 [JACOB (Giles).] The Poetical Register; or, the Lives and Characters of
the English Dramatick Poets. With an Account of their Writings.

Containing 16 portraits of Addison, Congreve, Prior, Betterton,
etc., etc.

2 vols., 8vo, original calf. L^ondon, 1719-20. £2 lOs

889 JACOB (Hildebrand). The Fatal Constancy, a Tragedy.

8vo, new boards. London, 1723. 12s 6d

890 JAMES I., KING OF ENGLAND. An Apologie for the Oath of Allegiance,

first set foorth without a name : And now acknowledged by the Author,
the Right High and Mightie Prince James. Together with a Premoni-
tion of his Maiesties, to all most Mightie Monarches, Kings, free Princes
and States of Christendome.

Small 4to, calf.

Imprinted at London by Robert Barker, April 8, 1609. £4 lOs

*** << The * Apology ' is in answer to two breves of Paul V,. in which the new oath

of allegiance was denounced, and also' to a letter from Bellarmine to the archpriest

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James I., King of England — continued.

Blackwell. This * Apology ' was answered by Bellarmine under the name of one of
his chaplains, Matthew Tortus, and the answer reached James in October 1608.
The view of the matter taken at Rome was that no catholic ought to be asked to
swear that the pope had no right to absolve from allegiance to kings. But the
controversialists on that side laid greater stress on anything which might discredit
their royal antagonist. Tortus had accordingly pointed out that when James was
still in Scotland his ministers had held out hopes of his becoming a catholic, and
that he had himself written a letter to the pope of that day recommending the
Bishop of Vaison to the cardinalate. James soon obtained from his former secre-
tary, Elphinstone, now Lord Balmeriiio, an acknowledgment of having foisted that
letter on him and hid one of his Scottish favourites, Hay, in a neighbouring room,
of which the door was left open, so that the confession might not be without wit-
nesses. James was overjoyed at this proof of his cleverness and innocence. In ' A
Premonition ' he warned his brother sovereigns of the danger of acknowledging the
claims of the papacy to exert authority over themselves." — D.N.B.

891 Aulicus CoquinoriSB: or, a Vindication in Answer to a Pamphlet

entituled The Court and Character of King James pretended to be
penned by Sir A. W. and pubhshed since his death.

First Edition. i2mo, original calf. London, 1650. 18s

* * * The Authorship ascribed to Wm. Sanderson and Dr. Heylin. It has been reprinted
in the " Secret History of James 1st."

892 Basilicon Doron; or, His Maiesties instructions to his dearest

Sonne Henry the Prince.

The First Published Edition, Arms of Scotland on title and
on last leaf.

Small 8vo. Fine Copy in contemporary vellum.

Edinburgh, Printed by Robert Waldegrave, 1603. £14 14s

*** In the same volume is '' De L'Education Des Enfans : et particulierement de
celles Des Princes."

893 Bazilikon Doron:

or His Majesties Instructions to his dearest Sonne, Henry the Prince.
First Edition printed in England.
i2mo, limp vellum. London, Felix Kyngston, 1603. ^S Ss

894 A Collection of such things as Robert, late Earle of Salusbury,

thought fit to offer unto His Majesty upon the occasion of calling a
Parliament.

Manuscript neatly written on 52 pages.

Folio, new half calf gilt, uncut. Circa 1640. £2 2s

Contains : Some remembraunces for the Parliament ; A Coppye of your first Speeche
delivered to the Lower House of Parliament, &c., &c.

IQO MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street. London, W.

James I., King of England — continued.

8q5 A Declaration of the Kings Majesties Intentioum and Meaning

towards the lait Actis of Parliament.

Small 4to, new boards. Edinburgh^ T. Vautroullier, 1585. £4 15s

* ** Relating to Religious matters and vindicating the King from the charge of

''Papistrie." - •

896 The Psalms of King David, translated by King James.

Engraved title by Marshall, with portrait of David and King James,
holding between them the Book of Psalmes.

(This does not contain the plate of the Royal Arms.)

i2mo, contemporary English binding of morocco, centre panel
covered with design in gold of leafy scrolls, etc., with outer border of
floral spray introducing birds, squirrels, snails, hare, and dogs, gilt
leaves. Oxford, 1631. £10 10s

* * * An unusual specimen of Early Seventeenth Centurj^ English Binding.

897 A Publication of his Maties Edict and Severe Censure against

Private Combats and Combatants whether within his Highnesse
Dominions or Without, with their Seconds, Accomplices and Adherents.

Small 4to, full neiv calf antique style, gilt leaves by Riviere.

London, R. Barker, 16 13. £2 5s

898 The True Lawe of Free Monarchies, or The Reciprock and

Mutuall Dutie betwixt a free King, and his naturall Subjects.

Woodcut of the Royal Arms on Title.
Small Svo, full morocco gilt, g. e., by Hay day .
London, 1603. ^* *S

Title laid down, otherwise a tall copy.

899 [Weldon (Sir Anthony).] The Court and Character of King

James. Whereunto is now added the Court of King Charles, with obser-
vations upon him. Portrait.

\2m.o, full calf neat. London, 1651. i 14s

900 The Workes of the Most High and Mighty Prince James. Pub-
lished by James Bishop of Winton.

Fine engraved title by Elstrack, large portrait of the King, wood-
cut of the Royal Arms, and small portrait of Prince Charles by Pass.

The First Collected Edition. Folio, calf. London, 16 16. £4 4s

* * * One of the few copies extant with the additional leaves (pp. 571 — 622) which were
printed in 1620 and are rarely to be found.

The Verse under the King's portrait, beginning

'* Crownes have their compasse,"
is usually attributed to Shakespeare.

MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. 191

901 JAMIESON (R). Popular Ballads and Songs, from Tradition, Manu-

scripts, and Scarce Editions, with Translations from the Ancient Danish
and a few originals by the Editor.

2 vols., 8vo, original boards, uncut. Edinburgh, 1806. 10s 6d

902 JANSSEN (S. T). Smuggling Laid Open, in all its Extensive and

Destructive Branches; With Proposals for the Effectual Remedy of that
most iniquitous Practice : Comprehending among other Particulars, the
Parliamentary Evidence of some of the most notorious Smugglers ; and
a large Sheet, shewing in one view, the whole state of the Tea Importa-
tion, Consumption, and Revenue, from Midsummer 1745 (when the
reduction of Two Shillings per Pound, took pl?xe) to new Christmas
1763. With the large folding leaf at end.

8vo, original calf. London, Printed for W . Owen, 1763. 18s

903 JEFFREYS (Judge). Barnes (Joshua). A Pindariok Congratulatory Poem

To the Right Honourable George, Lord Jeffreys, Baron of Wem, and
Lord High Chancellor of England, To the High and Mighty Monarch
King James the H.

Folio, new boards. London, 1685. ISs

904 JENNER (Thomas). The Ages of Sin, or Sinnes Birth and Growth. With
the Stepps and Degrees of Sin from thought to finall Impenitencie.

Small 4to, brown morocco gilt. (T. Jenner, circa 1655).

(See Illustration, Plate No. XIL). £15 15s

*** A series of nine plates of animals emblematic of Sin, by Ja. V, Locheii, with
verses beneath. From Corser's Library.

In Corser's ** Collectanea Anglo-Poetica " this book is described as follows:

" Another equally rare and curious volume, composed of nine emblematical engrav-
ings, each accompanied with six metrical lines in explanation of the subject, and
engraved underneath. These are in all probability the production of Thomas
Jenner, by whom the volume, although without any printer's name, place, or date,
is believed to have been published. The plates, which are on copper, are beautifully
engraved by Jacob van Langeren. The subjects of the cuts are Suggestion, Rumina-
tion, Delectation, Consent, Act, Iteration, Gloriation, Obduration, and Finall Im-
penitency. The following is the fifth of the series, entitled " Act " :

" Tiger swallowing a Cavalier.

Sin and the Soule (thus) having stricken Hands,
The Sinner now for Action ready stands ;
And Tyger-like swallowes-up, at one-bitt,
What ever impious Prey his Heart doth fitt :
Committing Sin, with eager greedy ness,
Selling his Soule to worke all wickedness."

192 MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W.

9Q5 JESTS. Amusements Serious and Comical; or, a New Collection of Bon-
,]. Mots, Keen Jests, Ingenious Thoughts, Pleasant Tales, and Comic
Adventures.

Post 8vo, calf neat. London^ I7IQ- £2 18s

906 Apollo's Feast; or Wits Entertainment; consisting of Pleasant

Intrigues, delightful Stories, ingenious Poems, witty Repartees, merry
Bulls, old Tales, etc. All collected from the most Ingenious of the Age,
and now published by the Author of the Pills to Purge Melancholy.

Small 8vo, full russia neat. London, 17 18. £4 4s

907 Bannatine (James). New Joe Miller; or, The Tickler, many of

which are original, and the others selected from the best Authors.

2 vols, in I, i2mo, original calf gilt. London, 1802-4. £1 lOs

Qo3 Ben Johnson's Jests: or, the Wit's Pocket Companion, being a

new Collection of the most ingenious Jests, diverting Stories, pleasant
Jokes, Smart Repartees, excellent Puns, Wise Sayings, Witty Quibbles,
and ridiculous Bulls, to which is added a Choice Collection of the newest
Conundrums, best Riddles, &c. Medallion -portrait of Johnson.

8vo, full calf. L^ondon, R. Baldwin, circa 1770. £8 lOs

go9 Bennet (H.). The Treasury of Wit, being a Selection of about

Twelve Hundred the best Apophthegms and Jests from books in several
languages, containing English, and Translations from the French,
Greek, Roman, Eastern, Spanish, Italian, and German, with a Discourse
on Wit and Humour.

2 vols., foolscap 8vo, original half russia. London, 1786. £1 5s

910 Boyer (A.). The Wise and Ingenious Companion, French and

English, being a Collection of the Wit of the Illustrious Persons, both
Ancient and Modern, Containing their Wise Sayings, Noble Sentiments,
Witty Repartees, Jests and pleasant Adventures : Text in English and
French.

8vo, calf {broken). London, 1723. ' 12s Gd

91 1 Cambridge Jests, or Witty Alarums for Melancholy Spirits by a

Lover of Ha, Ha, He.

First Edition. Small 8vo. With leaf of Licence before title.

Red levant morocco extra, g. e., by F. Bedford.

London, 1674. £18 18s

Fine copy.

The earliest edition in the Huth Library was that of 1742.

MAGGS BROS.. 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. 193

Jests — continued.

912 The Connplete London Jester, or, Wit's Companion; containing

all the Fun & all the Humour, all the Learning & all the Judgment,
which have lately flowed from the Two Universities, from the Two
Theatres, from White's Chocolate House, &c., &c. Frontispiece. 177 1.

Lord Chesterfield's Witticisms; or, the Grand Pantheon of Genius, Senti-
ment, & Taste. Portrait. N.D.

The Wits of Westminster, a new select collection of Jests, Bon Mots,
Humorous Tales, Brilliant Repartees, Epigrams, & other Sallies of Wit
& Humour. Frontis-piece. 1772.

Together 3 vols, in i, small 8vo, half calf. London, 177 1-2. £7 lOs

913 Daniel Gunston's Jests, etc., in two parts: Diverting Jests, Comi-
cal Bulls, Smart Repartees, Quaint Sayings, Queer Puns, Merry Adven-
tures, Whimsical Epigrams, Strange Epitaphs, Comical Questions^ etc.
In one vol., with portrait to each.

Small 8vo. Very fine copy in full calf gilt by Riviere.

London, 1780. £6 18s

An extremely rare Jest Book, from Mr. Huth's collection. There are about 30 pp. of
MS. additions bound in.

914 The Festival of Wit; or, the Small Talker. Consisting of FHghts

of Humour and Genius, selected from a voluminous work in the posses-
sion of G K .

Small 8vo, calf. London, 1783. £1 4s

915 The Festival of Wit; or, Small Talker, being a collection of Bon

Mots, Anecdotes, &c., of the most exalted characters; procured and
selected by G K .

Thick i2mo, original calf. London, 1793. 10s 6d

916 Fisher's Cheerful Companion to Promote Laughter, being a

humorous Collection of interesting Stories for a Winter's Evening Fire-
side, or Amusement for Summer, in a Shady Retreat.

8vo, calf, rebacked. London, circa 1800. 16s

* * * At the end is bound in, Jests of the Ship, wanting the title.

Qiy Foot (Ferdinando). The Nut-Crackeri Containing an agreeable

Variety of well-season'd Jests, Epigrams, Epitaphs, &c.

Collected from the most Sprightly Wits of the present Age. To-
gether with Such Instructions as will enable any Man to tell a Story with
a good Grace, and crack a Nut without losing the Kernel.

Engraved frontispiece.

Small 8vo, boutid by Riviere in full polished calf gilt^ g. e.

London, 175 1. £5 5s

194 MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Ccxnduit Street, London, W.

Jests — continued.

918 King (George). The Button-Maker's Jests, containing the

Cream, Marrow and Fatness of every Witty thing he either hath, or ever
shall say during his Life. With the rare frontispiece,

8vo, wrappers, uncut. London, circa 1750. £1 5s

* * * An extremely scarce Jest Book, but two of the leaves are imperfect.

919 Love at First Sight; or, the Gay in a Flutter. Being a Collection

of Advertisements, chiefly Comic. Directed to and from Vauxhall;
Ranelagh; St. James, etc., etc.

i2mo, full calf. London, 1750. 12s 6d

920 The Merry Miscellany: being the Second part of Daniel Gun-

ston's Jests, &c.

i2mo, half old calf. London, 1780. 18s

921 [Rowlands (Samuel)]. Doctor Merry-Man; or. Nothing but

Mirth : being a Posie of Pleasant Poems and Witty Jests.

Small 4to, half morocco. Newcastle {circa 1720). £2 2s

922 Scogin's Jests; Full of Witty Mirth, and pleasant Shifts; done

by him in France and other Places. Gathered by Andrew Board, Doctor
of Physick. Portrait of Board, after Holbein.

8vo, half morocco, gilt. London, 1796. £1 Is

923 Scrapeana, Fugitive Miscellany; or, a Medley of Choice Bon

Mots, Repartees, &c., to which is added, a Large Collection of Yorkshire
Anecdotes.

8vo, full 7nottled calf gilt, g. e. York, 1792. £2 8s

924 The Sprightly Jester, or Coffee-House Companion; a collection

of Smart Jests for the Wits of all Classes. Frontispiece.

i8mo, full calf, g. e. London, circa 1780. £1 lOs

925 The Wag; or. Life of Humour, and The Soul of Whim. Contain-
ing Jests, Epigrams, Epitaphs, Repartees, Bon Mots, Bulls, Quibbles,
Puns, Jokes, Gibes, Gambols, and Other Flashes of Merriment, to
banish Melancholy, dissipate Gloomy Thoughts, and set the Table on a
Roar. Being the Second Part of MERRY ANDREW. Frontispiece.

i2mo, original calf. Dublin, Printed by James Hoey, 1773. 12s 6d

926 Woman's Wit; or, a New and Elegant Amusement for the Fair

Sex, consisting of an original and brilliant assemblage of ingenious
Witticisms, Poignant Repartees, Bon Mots, Facetious Anecdotes, &c.
Portrait of Princess Charlotte.

Post 8vo, morocco. London, circa 1780, £1 lOs

MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35. Conduit Street, London, W. ig5

927 JEWELLERY AND PLATE. A Descriptive Inventory of the several

Exquisite and Magnificent Pieces of Mechanism and Jewellery, for
enabling Mr. James Cox, of the City of London, Jeweller, to dispose of
his Museum by way of Lottery. 2 plates.

Smdll 4to, wrappers. London, lyy^. £3 10s

928 JEWS. The Jews Jubilee; or, the Conjunction and Resurrection of the

Dry Bones of the Whole House of Israel; which respects their Return
Home unto their own Land, and their Thorow and Universal Conversion
imto the Christian Faith.

46 pp., small 4to, nezu boards. London, 1688. £10 lOs

929 William (Lord Bishop of St. Asaph). The Conversion & Perse-
cutions of Eve Cohan, now called EHzabeth Verboon, a Person of
Quality of the Jewish Religion.

27 pyp., small 4to, nezu boards. London, i6'8o. £3 15s

930 Woodroffe (B.). Daniel's Seventy Weeks; or the 24th, 25th, 26th,

27th Verses of the Nineteenth Chapter of Daniel, explain' d, and olfered
to the Jews.

20 pp., small 4to, 7tew boards. London, 1702. £2 5s

931 JOANNES SECUNDUS: Kisses; a Poetical Translation of the Basia of

Joannes Secundus Nicolaius, with the original Latin, and an Essay on
his Life and Writings.

With frontispiece and vignette portrait by Bartolozzi.

Best Edition. Printed in Red and Black. 8vo, full mottled calf
gilt, g. e. London, 1778. £3 3s

Uncut Copy.

932 JOBSON (Richard). The Golden Trade, or a Discovery of the River

Gambia, and the Golden Trade of the Aethiopians, also the Commerce
with a great blacke Merchant, called Bucker Sano, and his report of the
houses covered with Gold, and other strange observations for the good
of our countrey.

Set down as they were collected in travelling, part of thei yeares 1620
and 1 62 1.

Small 4to. A remarkable copy, the bottom and fore-edges being
entirely uncut, full straight- grain red morocco, gold lines and corner
fleurons, g. e. London, 1623. £52 10s

** Richard Jobson, traveller, was appointed in 1620 to command an expedition to
explore the river Gambia, in the interests of ' the gentlemen adventurers for the

(Continued over)

f06 MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W.

Jobson (Richard) — continued.

countries of Guinea and Benin.' Former attempts in 1618 and 1619 had failed, in
consequence of the hostility of the Portuguese and the unhealthiness of the climate.
Jobson, sailing from England on 25. Oct. 1620, and arriving at the mouth of the
Gambia on 17 Nov., succeeded in ascending the river as high as Tenda, though he
did not meet with the gold which was the principal object in view. After his return
to England in 1621, lie published 'The Golden Trade.' He gives interesting
accounts of the natives, till then unvisited by Europeans, though they had already
an overland trade with the Moors of the North coast." — (D.N.B.)

933 JOHNSON (Captain Charles). A General History of the Lives and Adven-

tures of the Most Famous Highwaymen, Murderers, Street Robbers,
&c.

To which is added, A Genuine Account of the Voyages and Plunders
of the most Notorious Pyrates.

Interspersed with several diverting Tales, and pleasant Songs, and
adorned with the Heads of the Most Remarkable Villains, curiously
Engraven. '

Illustrated with 26 full-page plates.

A Complete Copy of the Best Edition

Folio, original calf. London, 1734. £24

THE LIVES OF THE PYRATES, include : —

Captain Avery (with large plate).

Captain Martel.

Captain Teach, alias Black Beard (with large plate).

Captain Edward England (with large plate).

Captain Bartholomew Roberts (with large plate).

Captain George Lowther (with large plate).

Captain Edward Low (with large plate).

Captain Henry Morgan (with large plate).

And others so famous for their exploits on the American coast.

934 JOHNSON (R. A). The Scholars Guide from the Accidence to the

University.

Or, Short, plain and easie Rules for performing all manner of
Exercise in the Grammar School, etc. London, 1699.

Directions for the Latine Tongue, by the Translator of Religio Medici
(J. Merry weather of Magdalen Coll., Cambridge). London, 1681.

Gilbert (M.). Schematologia Grammatica Exemplis tarn Graecis quam
Latinis Illustrata. London, 168 1.

Together in i vol., small 8vo, original calf. iBI 5s

MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London. W. 197

DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON.

935 Ode by Dr. Samuel Johnson to Mrs. Thrale, upon their supposed approach-

ing Nuptials.

First Edition. 16 pp., small 4to, uncut and unopened as issued.
London, 1784. £10 lOs

* * * Exceedingly Rare. Although the Authorship is ascribed on the title to Dr. John-
son, it is believed to have actually been written by Boswell, probably to annoy Mrs.
Piozzi. The date on the pamphlet is 1784 ; this is evidently false, as it cannot have
been published earlier than 1788, for the " Authour " in his preface quotes Mrs.
Piozzi's Letters from and to Dr. Johnson, and these were not published till 1788.

936 Dialogue between Dr. Johnson and Mrs. Knowles.

First Editon. % p^., ^yo, unbound. London, 1799. £2 10s

937 Dialogue between Mrs. Knowles and Dr. Johnson.

8 pp., 8vo, original blue -paper wrappers, U7icut.

London, 1805. £1 IBs

938 A Diary of a Journey into North Wales, in the year 1774. Edited with

illustrative notes by R. Duppa.

First Edition. 8vo, new boards, uncut. London, 18 16. 16s 6d

939 Dictionary of the English Language. In which the words are deduced

from their Originals and Illustrated in their Different Significations, by
Examples from the best Writers, to which are prefixed A History of the
Language, and an English Grammar.

First Edition. 2 vols., large thick folio, old calf (rebacked).

London, 1755. £14 14s

*** This is the First Edition of the famous Dictionary. It was a surprising achieve-
ment, and made an epoch in the study of the English Language. Johnson s labours
during its preparation must have been enormous. The general excellence of its
definitions and the judicious selection of illustrative passages make it entertaining
as well as useful for reference. Some of Johnson's definitions, however, are very
quaint, and in others he shows his then political opinions, such as : —

*' PENSION. An allowance made to any one without an equivalent. In England
it is generally understood to mean pay given to a state hireling for treason to his
country." Etc.

Hj8 MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W.

Johnson (Dr. Samuel) — continued.

940 The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia. A tale.

First Edition. 2 vols, in i , small 8vo, original calf, joints repaired.
London, 1759. £19 19s

*** "I have lately read the 'Prince of Abyssmia ' ; I am almost equally charm'd
and shocked at it — the style, the sentiments are inimitable — but the subject is
dreadful, and handled as it is by Dr. Johnson, might make any young, perhaps
old, person tremble." — Francis Burney.

** No prig shall ever persuade me that 'Rasselas' is not a noble performance, in
design and in execution. Never were the expenses of a mother's funeral more
gloriously defrayed by a son than the funeral of Samuel Johnson's mother by the
price of ' Rasselas,' written for the pious purpose of laying her head decently and
honourably in the dust." — John Wilson.

941 History of Rasselas, the Prince of Abissinia.

Second Edition. 2 vols., i2mo, full calf (rebacked).

London, Dodsley, 1759. £1 lOs

942 Irene.

A Tragedy, as it is Acted at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane.

First Edition. 8vo. A Yery Fine Uncut Copy in full levant
morocco, t. e. g., by Riviere. London, iy4g. £28

943 Kelly (Hugh). A Word to the Wise, a Comedy.

First Edition, with a very long '' Address to the Public " on the

banishment of the Play from the Theatre (17 pp.), by Dr. Samuel Johnson.

8vo, Aalf calf neat. London, Printed for the Author, 1770. £3 35

With Autograph Letter.

944 Letters to and from the late Samuel Johnson, LL.D., to which are added

some Poems never before printed, published from the Original MSS. m
her possession, by Hester Lynch Piozzi.

2 vols., 8vo, original calf (^-preserved in a half morocco case).

London, 1788. £21

* * * A MOST INTERESTING COPY, HAVING INSERTED IN VOLUME I. AN
ORIGINAL AUTOGRAPH LETTER FROM DR. JOHNSON TO MRS. THRALE.

This is a long and very important letter of 2 pp., 4to, in which he writes : '' I entreat
I may not be flattered, as your letters flatter me. You have read of heroes and
princes ruined by flattery, and I question if any of them had a flatterer so dangerous
as you. Pray keep strictly to your character of governess."

MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. 199

Johnson (Dr. Samuel) — continued.

Uncut Copy in the Original Boards
WITH Autograph Letter inserted.

945 Letters to and from the late Samuel Johnson, LL.b. Another Copy.

First Edition. 2 vols., in the original hoards, edges entirely un-
cut. London, 1788. £28

* * * A MOST INTERESTING COPY, HAVING INSERTED IN VOLUME I. AN
ORIGINAL autograph LETTER. FROM DR. JOHNSON TO MRS. THRALE.

This letter is 1^ pp., 4to, in length, in which he writes: " On Wednesday I had the
teapot, fasted, and was blooded. Wednesday night was better. To-day I have dined
at Mr. Strahan's at Islington, with his new wife. To-night there will be opium.
To-morrow the teapot. Then heigh for Saturday. I wish the Doctor would bleed
me again. Yet every body that I meet says that I look better than when I was
last met."

946 Marmor Norfolciense;

or, an Essay on an Ancient Prophetical Inscription in Monkish Rhyme,
lately discovered near Lynn in Norfolk; by Piobus Britanicus.

First Edition. 8vo, full polished calf extra, gilt leaves, by Riviere
{no half title). London, J. Brett, 1739. £6 6s

947 The Plan of a Dictionary of the English Language; addressed to the

Right Honourable Philip Dormer, Earl of Chesterfield.

First Edition. 8vo, new boards. London, 17^7. 16s

*** Wants half-title.

948 Poetical Works. Now first collected in one volume.

First Edition. i2mo, original calf. London, 1785. £1 10s

949 Political Tracts. Containing: —

The False Alarm. The Patriot; and

Falkland's Islands. Taxation no Tyranny.

The First Collected Edition. 8vo, original calf.

London, Printed for W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1776. £2 lOs

950 The Rambler.

A Complete Set of the Original Numbers.

3 vols., folio, contemporary calf. 1749-50 — 1752. £16 16s

*** << In 1750 Johnson began a more congenial task by writing the 'Rambler.' The
first number appeared on Tuesday, 20 March, 1750 (old style 1749), and it came out
every Tuesday and Saturday, till the last number, published on Saturday, 14 March,
1752. Johnson wrote the whole (except No. 10, written partly by Mrs. Chapone ; No.

(Continued over)

200 MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London. W.

Johnson (Dr. Samuel) — continued.

30 by Miss Catherine Talbot ; No. 97 by Samuel Richardson ; and Nos. 44 and 100 by
Mrs. Elizabeth Carter). Johnson received two guineas a paper. The ' Rambler '
attracted little notice at first, although the author was gratified by his wife's
declaration that he* had surpassed even her expectations. The sale is said to have
rarely exceeded five hundred, the only one which had a prosperous sale being Richard-
son's. As the price was twopence, the profits cannot have been large. The

* Rambler ' had probably a more lasting success than any other imitation of the

* Spectator,' though its rare modern readers will generally consider it as a proof of
the amazing appetite of Johnson's public for solid sermonising. Omitting its clumsy
attempts at occasional levity, it may be granted that in its ponderous sentences lie
buried a great mass of strong sense and an impressive and characteristic view of
life. From this time Johnson became accepted as an imposing moralist." — D.N.B.

951 Table-Talk: Containing Aphorisms on Literature, Life, and Manners;

with Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons : selected and arranged from
Mr. Boswell's Life of Johnson.

8vo, original calf.

London, Printed for C. Dilly in the Poultry y 1798. 18S

952 Savage (Richard). The Works of Richard Savage, Son of the Earl

Rivers. With an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author, by
Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

First Edition. 2 vols., 8vo, original calf. London, 1775. £1 1s

953 JONES (Henry). The Earl of Essex, a Tragedy. As it is acted at the
Theatre Royal in Covent-Garden.

First Edition. 8vo, new boards. London, 1753. 10s 6d

**♦ This play was warmly commended by Lord Chesterfield to CoUey Gibber. It
was carefully revised by Chesterfield and Cibber and thanks to the fine acting of
Barry in the title-role, met with great success.

953a JOSEPHUS (Flavius). Works. Translated into EngHsh by Sir Roger
L'Estrange.

Containing The Antiquities of the Jews; Their Wars with the
Romans; The Life of Josephus written by Himself; His Book against
Ajpion, in Defence of the Antiquities of the Jews; The Martyrdom of
Maccabees; Philo's Embassy from the Jews of Alexandria to Caius
Caligula. All carefully Revis'd, and Compar'd with the Original Greek.
To which are added Two Discourses, and several Remarks and Obser-
vations upon Josephus.

Illustrated with maps and -plates.

Folio, original calf. London, 1702. £1

MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Stieet. London, W. 201

" O, Rare Ben Jonson."

954 JONSON (Ben). Works.

Comprising his Plays, Poems, Masques, Prose Pieces, etc.

The Exceedingly Rare First Collected Edition.

2 vols., folio, old calf (rebacked). London^ 1616-40.

(See Illustration, Plate No. XIII.) £125

The first Folio Edition of the Collected Works and Jonson's own edition. Ranking

with the first folio of Shakespeare.
Vol. I. has fine impression of the title-page engraved in emblematical compartments

by W. Hole.
Vol. II. has the rare general title.

Each play has a separate title, and the first three plays in the 2nd vol. are dated 1631.
At the end of each play is given the list of '' The Principall Tragedians." Amongst the

names occur that of Will. Shakespeare, who played in ** Sejanus," '* Every Man in

his Humour," etc., etc. The close connection between the Plays of Shakespeare and

Jonson needs no comment here.

. . . Jonson in his " Timber: or Discoveries made upon Men and Matter " (at end
of vol. 2), gives his opinion upon Shakespeare as follows: —

"I remember, the Players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that
in his writing (whatsoever he penn'd) hee never blotted out line. My answer hath
been, would he had blotted a thousand. Which they thought a malevolent speech.
I had not told posterity this, but for their ignorance, who choose that circumstance
to commend their friend by wherein he most faulted. And to justifie mine owne
candor (for I lov'd the man, and doe honour his memory (on this side idolatry) as
much as any). He was (inde_ed) honest, and of an open, and free nature, had an
excellent Phantsie, brave notions, and gentle expressions ; wherein hee flow'd with
that facility, that sometimes it was necessary he should be stop'd. . . There was
ever more in him to be praysed than to be pardoned."

955 ~ Works, which were formerly Printed in Two Volumes, are now

Reprinted in One. To which is added a Comedy, called The New Inn,
with Additions never before Published.

Fine oval portrait by W . Elder.
Folio, calf.

London^ Thomas Hodgkin for H. Herringmariy E, Breivster^ etc.,
1692. £8 10s

The First Complete one volume edition of Jonson.

957 JOYNER (William). The Roman Empress, a Tragedy. Acted at the
Royal Theater by His Majestie's Servants.

First Edition. Small 4to, >^^// c^//. London, 1671. £2 10s

202 MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street. London, W.

958 KEITH (George). The Way to the City of God described, or, A Plaine

Declaration how any man may, within the day of Visitation given him
of God, pass out of the unrighteous into the righteous state, etc.
Written in the Year 1669, in the time of his being a close Prisoner in
the Tolbooth at Edinburgh. Whereunto is added, The Way to Discern
the Convictions, Motions, etc., of the Spirit of God, etc. Written in
the time of his confinement in Aberdeen, in the year 1676.

Small 8vo, original calf. 1678. £1 1s

959 A Christian Catechisme, for the Instruction of Youth, and others

to whom it may be useful on the grounds of Christian Religion, and
Practice of Christian Piety.

i2mo., original calf. London^ 1698. 12s 6d

960 KEMBLE (J. P., the celebrated Actor). Fugitive Pieces, in Verse.

Small 8vo, full calf extra, gilt leaves. York, 1780. £3 3s

The original issue, and extremely scarce, having been rigidly suppressed by the
Author, who paid upwards of £10 for some copies.

The First Edition containing the Famous Hymns '' Awake My Soul "
AND '' Glory to Thee, my God, this night."

961 KEN (Bishop). A Manual of Prayers for the Use of the Scholars of

Winchester College and all other Devout Christians. Revised.

i2mo, original calf. London, i6g2. £5 5s

*** The First Edition of this famous Manual to contain the Supplement "Three
Hymns" by Bishop Ken, viz., "Awake my soul and with the sun" (Morning
Hymn), "Glory to thee, my God, this night" (Evening Hymn), "Lord now my
sleep does me forsake " (Midnight Hymn).

962 KILBURNE (Richard). A Topographie, or Survey of the County of

Kent, with some Chronological, Historicall, and other matters touching
the same: and the several Parishes and Places therein.

Portrait by Cross. Small 4to, orig. calf. London, 1659. £3 15s
* * * With annotations in margins by a contemporary hand.

963 KILLIGREW (Thomas). Comedies and Tragedies.

Written by Thomas Killigrew, Page of Honour to King Charles the
First.

The First Collected Edition, with a fine impression of the
very rare portrait by Faithorne {the author seated with his books, a dog
at his feet).

Folio, calf neat {portrait margined).

London, Printed for Henry Herringman, 1664.

(See Illustration, Plate No. XIV.) £36

Robert Harley's copy, with his bookplate, and his name in gold letters on title.
** * The volume contains (1) ''The Princesse, or Love at First Sight," a tragi-
comedy; (2) "The Parson's Wedding," a comedy, which has been reprinted in

MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. 203

Killigrew (Thomas) — continued.

successive editions of Dodsley's ''Old Plays"; (3) "The Pilgrim," a tragedy; (4)
the first part of " Cicilia and Clorinda, or Love in Arms," a tragi-comedy ; (5) the
second part of the same; (6) " Thomaso, or the Wanderer," a comedy; (7) the
second part of " Thomaso " ; (8) " Claracilla," a tragi-comedy; (9) " The Prisoners,"
a tragi-comedy; (10) the first part of " Bellamira her Dream, or the Love of
Shadows," a tragi-comedy; (11) the second part of " Bellamira." Each of these
plays has a separate title-page dated 1663 or 1664, Three of them (Nos. 1, 2 and 8)
were acted before the civil war, and there is no record of a performance of any of
the others. Few of them, indeed, seem to have been intended for the stage, those
that are in two parts consisting, as Genest observes, of plays in ten acts divided
into halves, the first part bringing with it nothing in the shape of a denouement of
action. The " Parson's Wedding " is outspoken enough for Wycherley, and verbose
enough for the Duchess of Newcastle. It has wit of a sort, and Congreve has con-
descended to adopt some of its jokes. According to Langbaine, its intrigue of
" Careless and Wild circumventing the Lady Wild and Mrs. Pleasance into mar-
riage " is an incident in several plays, as 'Ram Alley,' "Antiquary,' &c., but in
none so well managed as in this play." — (D.N.B.)

964 KILLIGREW (Sir William).

Four New

Playes,

viz.:

The Siege of Urbin \

Selindra \ ^ ^ ..

Love and Friendship ^^^^y- ^-omedies.

Pandora, a Comedy. /

The First Folio Edition. Folio, original calf.
Oxford, 1666. £7 7S

*** The First Collected Edition of these Plays and the First Edition of '' The Siege
of Urbin."

965 KING (D.). The Vale Royal of England, or the County Palatine of

Cheshire Illustrated. Also an excellent Discourse of the Island of Man.

Map and numerous plates.

First Edition. Folio, original calf. 1656.

A Complete Copy. £4 5s

King Charles II. 's Copy.

966 KNELL (Paul). Five Seasonable Sermons. As they were preached

before Eminent Auditories, upon several Arguments.

Contemporary binding of morocco, with the large Arms of King
Charles 11., to whom the book is dedicated, in gold on sides, corner
ornaments in gold, gold lines, gilt edges.

8vo. London, 1660. £5 5s

204 MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W.

967 KNIGHTS OF MALTA. Vertot (Mons. L'Abbe de). The History of

the Knights of Malta.

With 71 finely engraved for traits of the Grand Masters^ etc.^ and
4 maps.

2 vols., folio, original calf. London, 1728. £3 5s

King Charles I.'s Copy.

968 KNOLLES (Richard). The Generall Historie of the Turkes

from the first beginning of that Nation to the rising of the Othoman
Familie, with all the notable expeditions of the Christian Princes against
them, together with the Lives and Conquests of the Othoman Kings
and Emperours.

Engraved title and portraits.

Thick folio, original calf. KING CHARLES THE FIRST'S COPY, with
his Arms in gold on sides {joints neatly repaired^.

London, A. Islip, 1638.

(See Illustration, Plate No. XV.) £45

969 KORAN. Malezair (Sieur du Ryer, Lord of Malezair). The Alcoran of

Mahomet, translated out of Arabique into French; and newly Englished,
for the satisfaction of all that desire to look into the Turkish vanities.

Small 4to, original sheep. London, 1649. 18s

970 LACKINGTON (James). Memoirs of the Forty-Five First Yeares of the

Life of James Lackington, Bookseller. Written by Himself.
With portrait.

Small 8vo, neivly bound in half blue morocco gilty uncut, t. e. g.
London, 1794. 15s

971 THE LADIES' LIBRARY: or, Encyclopaedia of Female Knowledge, in

every Branch of Domestic Economy: comprehending, in Alphabetical
Arrangement, Distinct Treatises on every practical subject, necessary
for Servants and Mistresses of Families.

2 vols., 8vo, half calf. London, 1790. i 10s 6d

Contains a Section devoted to Small Pox. 25 pp.
Also contains engraved Portrait of Dr. Buchan.

972 LAMBARDE (WilHam). A Perambulation of Kent conteining the

description, Hystorie, and Customes of that Shyre, written in the yeere
1570 by WilHam Lambarde of Lincolnes Inne Gent: first published in
the yeere 1576, and now increased and altered after the Authors owne
last copie.

Black Letter, map of England, and the folding ** Carde of the
Beacons, in Kent.''

Small 4to. Fine Copy in full russia, g. e. London, 1596. £5 5s

MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. 205

973 LANGBAINE (Gerard) An Account of the English Dramatick Poets;

or. Some Observations and Remarks on the Lives and Writings of all
those that have published either Comedies, Tragedies, Tragi-Comedies,
Pastorals, Masques, Interludes, Farces, or Operas in the English
Tongue.

First Edition. Small 8vo, new calf antique.

Oxford, 1691. £3 15s

Includes notices of Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher, Middleton,
Heywood, etc.

974 The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets; also

an exact account of all the plays in the English Tongue; first begun by
Mr. Langbaine, improved and continued by a careful hand (Chas.
Gildon). -

Small 8vo, half calf. London, circa 1698. £2 2s

975 LANGHAM (William). The Carden of Health: containing the sundry

rare and hidden vertues and properties of all kindes of Simples and
Plants. Together with the manner how they are to bee used and applyed
in medicine for the health of man's body, against divers diseases and
infirmities most common amongst men.

Second Edition, corrected and amended.

Small thick 4to, full calf, g. e.

London, Thomas Harper, 1633. £4 4s

* * * Bottom of title stained and slightly defective.

976 LATHAM (Symon). FaJcowry: or the Faulcon's Lure and Cure, the

ordering and training up of all Hawkes in generall, especially the Hag-
gard Faulcon Gentle.

Woodcut on title.

Latham's New and Second! Booke of Faulconry, concerning the ordering
and training up of all such Hawkes as was omitted in his printed
Booke of the Haggard Faulcon, etc. . . . Published for the delight
of noble mindes and Instruction of Yong Faulcons.

Numerous woodcuts of Hawks, etc.

First Edition. Dedicated to Sir Thos. Munson and Sir Patrick
Hume.

Small 4to. Fine Cofy in full red levant morocco, -panelled sides,
inside dentelles, g. e., by F. Bedford. London, 1633. £16 16s

206 MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W.

f^T7 LAUD (William, Archbishop of Canterbury). Artioles exhibited in Par-
liament against William, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1640.

4 leaves. Small 4to, boards. Printed in the yeare 1640. 12s 6(1
* * * These articles maintain the accusation of High Treason against Laud.

978 The Bishop's Potion; or, a Dialogue betweene the Bishop of

Canterbury and his phisitian. Wherein he desireth the Doctor to have
a care of his Bodie and to preserve him from being let blood in the neck
when the Signe is in Taurus.

Woodcuts on title.

Small 4to, half calf. Printed in the yeer 164 1, £4 4s

Q79 The Copie of a Letter sent from William Laud, Archbishop of

Canterbury, the 28 of June, 1641, unto the Universitie of Oxford:
specifying. His willingnesse to resigne his Chancellor-ship, and withall
deploring his sad Estate now in the time of his Imprisonment.

2 pp., small 4to, unbound. Printed in the yeare 164 1. £1 1s

q8o ^ — Herbert (Thomas). An Answer to the most Envious, Scandalous,

and Libellous Pamphlet, entitled Mercurie's Message, or The Copy of
a Letter sent to William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury, now prisoner
in the Tower.

8 pp., small 4to, unbound. £3 15s

Imprint at bottom, cut into. "Woodcvit of a hand holding dagger, and portrait of
Archbishop on reverse of the Title.

q8i Merouries Message, or The Coppy of a Letter sent to William

Laud, late Archbishop of Canterbury, now prisoner in the Tower.

Woodcut portrait of the Archbishop^ on title-page.

8 pp., small 4to, half morocco.

Printed in the Yeare, of our Prelates feare. 164 1. £4 4s

*** An Attack in verse upon William Laud ending with '' An Accrosticall Caveat to
beware of Ambition."

Q82 — Mercurie's Message Defended, against the vain, foolish, simple,

and absurd cavils of Thomas Herbert, a ridiculous Ballad Maker.

2 pp., unbound. London, printed 164 1. £4 4s

With woodcut on title of Herbert holding his answer to the Archbishop, Herbert's
Head is in the Hangman's Noose, by which he is being drawn to the scaffold.

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Laud (William, Archbishop of Canterbury) — continued.

Q83 A PrognosticatiOin upon W. Laud, late and last bishop of that sea;

writt Ano. 1640. An extremely rare broadside, consisting of one en-
graved leaf, with a curious copper-plate at the head, representing Laud's
execution, which took place on Jan. 10, 1644.

Folio, new boards. Circa 1644. £1 1s

Compleat History of the Commitment, Charge, Try all. Condemnation,
Execution of William Laud. Containing the severall Orders, Articles,
Proceedings in Parliament against him, from his first Accusation therein,
till his Tryall.

With two portraits.

Small folio, original calf. London, 1646. 15s

Q85 The Recantation of the Prelate of Canterbury, being his last

Advice to his Brethren the Bishops of England; to consider his Fall,
observe the Times, forsake their Wayes, and to joyne in this good work
of Reformation (interspersed with Verse).

Small 4to, unbound. Fine tall copy, with several uncut bottom
margins. London, 1641. £2 lOs

Archbishop Laud's Copy of his own Famous Work.

Bishop of St. Davids, now Lord Arch Bishop of Canterbury : and Mr.
Fisher the Jesuite, by the Command of King James of ever blessed
memorie, with an Answer to such exceptions as A. C. takes against it.

Engraved portrait of Laud.

The Archbishop's Own Copy, with his Arms in gold on sides, g.e.

¥o\\o, original calf (joints strengthened). London, 1639. £14 14s

*** Archbishop Laud's Own Copy of this, the First Complete Edition. It is the
most famous series of Arguments between the English Protestant Church and the
Roman Catholics.

" On 23 April, 1622, James sent for Laud, asking him to iise his influence with the
Countess of Buckingham, who was attracted towards the church of Rome by the
arguments of Percy, a Jesuit who went by the name of Fisher. By the King's
orders there had been two conferences held in her presence between Fisher and Dr.
Francis White, and on 24 May, 1622, a third conference was held, in which Laud
took the place of W^hite. The subject then discussed was the infallibility of the
church.

*' Laud's arguments on this occasion, together with their subsequent enlargement in
his account of the controversy published in 1639, mark his ecclesiastical position in
the line between Hooker and Chillingworth. On the one hand he acknowledged the
church of Rome to be a true church, on the ground that it ' received the Scriptures

(Continued o\!er)

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Laud (William, Archbishop of Canterbury) — continued.

as a rule of faith, though but as a partial and imperfect rule, and both the sacra-
ments as instrumental causes and seals of grace.' He strove against the position
' that all points defined by the church are fundamental,' attempting as far as pos-
sible to limit the extent of ' soul-saving faith.' The foundations of faith were ' the
Scriptures and the creeds.' When doubt arose 'about the meaning of the articles,
or superstructures upon them — which are doctrines about the faith, not the faith
itself, unless when they be immediate consequences — then, both in and of these, a
lawful and free general council, determining according to Scripture, is the best judge
on earth.' Laud, in short, wished to narrow the scope of dogmatism, and to bring
opinions not necessary to salvation to the bar of public discussion by duly authorised
exponents, instead of to that of an authority claiming infallibility." — D.N.B.

Q87 Seven Sermens preached upon Several Ocaasions.

First Edition. \2mo,, full morocco, g. e. London, 16^1. £1 5s

q88 — A Speech delivered in the Starr-Chamber, on Wednesday the

XlVth of June, MDCXXXVII, at the Censure, of John Bastwick,
Henry Burton, and William Prinn; concerning pretended Innovations
in the Church.

First Edition. Small 4to. Fine copy in contemporary vellum.

London, Printed by Richard Badger, 1637. £6 6s

* * * Complete with the Dedication to the King, 11 pp. Lowndes states that only 25
copies of this dedication were printed.

***.'' Archbishop Laud had ordered various changes in the Church Ritual, which
were intended merely to remove illegal abuses ; but it was inevitable that some of
them should be regarded as evidence of his intention to draw the Church into a
path which would ultimately lead to a reunion with Rome* This was especially the
case with his direction for fixing the communion table at the East end of the
Churches. The opposition created was the greater, as Rome was at the same time
making an effort to extend her influence in England, and in that effort Laud was
naturally, though quite untruly, regarded as an accomplice. . . .

*' The puritans attacked him and his system with scurrilous bitterness. When, on 14
June 1637, three of them, Prynne, Burton, and Bastwick, were brought up for
sentence in the Star-Chamber, Laud seized the opportunity of delivering this speech,
which is as instructive on his position as a disciplinarian as the conference with
Fisher is on his views concerning doctrine. In the course of his speech Laud
referred bitterly to a book issued by Bishop Williams under the title of ' The Holy
Table, Name and Thing,' in which a compromise in the dispute about the position
of the communion table was recommended." — (D.N.B.)

989 The True Copie of a Letter sent from the Most Reverend William

Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury to the University of Oxford, when
he resigned his Office of Chancellour. Published by Occasion of a Base
Libell and Forgery that runs under this Title. And also the Answer
of the University to the said letter.

8 pp., small 4to, unbound. Oxford, 164 1. 15s

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XIVth Century Manuscript in English.

990 LAURENCE (Brother, a Dominican Monk). The Book Of Vices and

Virtues m English. Illuminated Manuscript written by an English
scribe (XIVth Century), on 112 leaves of vellum (lof by /J inches),
written in Gothic characters, 42 long lines to a page.

Decorated with 15 large initials with elongations forming borders
of scrap and bar work ornamented with floral designs, painted in bril-
liant colours and illuminated, numerous smaller capitals in burnished
gold on coloured grounds.

Folio, original oak boards covered with stamfed calf (rebacked).

{England, XIVth Century.)

(See Illustration, Plate No. XVI.) £210

With bookplate of Andrew Coltee Ducarel of Doctor's Commons, and inscription
''Dec. 0, 1777." This curious MS. was presented to Dr. Ducarel by Mr. Frank
vSmythies of Colchester. The name of an earlier owner (16th Century) also occurs,
'VRobt. Paynell de Grayes Inne etc." Manuscripts (in English) of this work which
was first composed in French in the year 1279 are uncommon.

The work was written by Frere Lorens, the Confessor of Philippe III. (the "Bold")
of France, in 1279. It is an exposition of the Christian Doctrine, containing ex-
planations and commentaries on the Ten Commandments, the Seven Deadly Sins,
the Twelve Articles of Christian Belief, etc. It enjoyed a wide popularity in the
14th and 15th centuries, being translated into Dutch and English, editions being
printed by Caxton, Wynkyn de Worde and Pynson. The first printed edition of
this work in the original French was published in 1502 by Verard.

QQi LAYATER'S Looking-Glass; or, Essays on the Face of Animated Nature,
from Man to Plants.

Frontispiece. 8vo, full contemporary red morocco gilt (rebacked).

London, i8oo. 10s 6cl

992 LAVENDER (T). The Travels of Fcwre English Men and a preacher into

Africa, Asia, Troy, Bythinia, Thracia, and to the Blacke Sea; and into
Syria, Cilicia, Pisidia, Mesopotamia, Damascus, Canaan, Galilee,
Samaria, Judea, Palestine, Jerusalem, Jericho, and to the Red Sea.
Begun in the Yeere of Jubile 1600, and by some of them finished in
the yeere 161 1, and others not yet returned.

Small 4to. Black Letter, very fine copy in full levant morocco gilt^
g. e. London, 1612. £12 12s

993 LAW. Atkyns (Sir Robert). An Enquiry into the Power of Dispensing

with Penal Statutes. Together with some Animadversions upon a Book
writ by Sir Edw. Herbert.

Folio, new boards. London, 1689. lOs 6d

* * * Dealing with the case of Sir Edw. Hales who was fined £500, under the Act
" for preventing Dangers which may happen from Popish Recusants," for failing to
take the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance.

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Law — continued.

994 Blackstone (Sir W). Commentaries on the Laws of England,

in four books.

Twelfth Edition, with the last corrections of the Author and
with notes and additions by Edward Christian.

Illustrated ivith 12 engraved portraits of the Judges in their robes.

^Yo\?,., %\o, half calf . London, 1793-4. £2 2s

* * * '' They are the most correct and beautiful outline that ever was exhibited in any
human science."

995 Blackstone (WilHam). The Great Charter and Charter of the

Forest, with other Authentic Instruments, to which is prefixed an In-
troductory Discourse containing the History of the Charters.

Engraved initials and tail-pieces.

Royal 4to, ftill russia gilt. Oxford, 1759. £3 lOs

996 Dugdale (W.). Origines Juridioiales, or Historical Memorials of

the English Laws, Courts of Justice, forms of Tryal, Law-writers, Law-
books, Innes of Court and Chancery; also a chronologic of the Lord
Chancelors and Keepers of the great Seal.

Second Edition, with additions. With the six fine engraved por-
traits of the judges.

¥o\\o, calf rebacked. London, 167 1. £3 3s

From the library of the celebrated Earl of Chesterfield.

997 Fitzherbert (Sir Anthony). La Graunde Abridgement.

3 vols., folio. Printed in Law French, without a Title or Printer's
Name, but attributed to Wynkyn De Worde (wants leaf of Arms, and
a few leaves in Volume I. defective). Half morocco.

AMi millencimo quigetesimo sexto decimo (15 16).

The First Edition of the Rarest of English Law Books. £25

Ames, and Lowndes following him, stated that there was an Edition of 1514 — a copy
of which was in the Lincoln's Inn Library. This, however, is an error. The copy
in the Lincoln's Inn Library being 1516 as this, and no Earlier Edition can be traced.

Sir Anthony Fitzherbert (1470-1538) was the most celebrated Judge of his day. On
11 June, 1529, he was one of the commissioners appointed to hear causes in chancery
in place of the chancellor, Wolsey. On 1 Dec. following he signed the articles of
impeachment exhibited against Wolsey, one of them being to the effect that ** cer-
tain bills for extortion of ordinaries " having been found before Fitzherbert, Wolsey
had the indictments removed into the chancery by certiorari, " and rebuked the
same Fitzherbert for the same cause." On 1 June, 1533, he was present at the
coronation of Anne Boleyn. He was one of the Commission that (29 April, 1535)
tried the Carthusians, Robert Feron, John Hale, and others for high treason under

MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. 211

Law — continued. •

the statute 25 Hen. VIII, c. 22, the offence consisting in having met and conversed
too freely about the king's marriage. He was also a member of the tribunals that
tried Fisher and More in the following June and July.

His earliest and greatest work, '' La Graunde Abridgement," is a digest of the year
books arranged under appropriate titles in alphabetical order : it is also more than
this, as some cases are there mentioned which are not to be found in the year-books,
but which have, nevertheless, been accepted as authorities in the courts.

Though not absolutely the earliest work of the kind, for Statham's abridgment seems
to have had slightly the start of it, Fitzherbert's was emphatically the " grand
abridgment," the first serious attempt to reduce the entire law to systematic shape.

As such it served as a model to later writers, such as Sir Robert Broke or Brooke,
whose *' Graunde Abridgement " is, indeed, merely a revision of Fitzherbert's with
additional cases, and Henry Rolle, Chief Justice of the King's Bench, 1648, whose
" Abridgement des Plusieurs Cases et Resolutions del commun Ley," published 1668,
was designed rather as a supplement to Fitzherbert and Brooke than as an
exhaustive work.

998 Hale (Sir Matthew). The History of the Pleas of the Crown;

now first published from his Lordship's Original Manuscript, and the
several References to the Records examined by the Originals, with large
Notes by Sollom Emlyn. Portrait.

2 vols., folio, calf. In the Savoy, 1736. £1 5s

* * * From the Library of Lord Chesterfield.

999 The Lawes Resolutions of Women's Rights: or, the Lawes Pro-
vision for Women.

A Collection of such Statutes and Customes, with the Cases, Opin-
ions, Arguments, and Points of Learning in the Law as doe properly
concerne Women.

Small 4to, original calf. London, 1632. £2 15s

1000 Le Liver des Assises & plees del Corone moues & dependants

denaunt les Justices Sybien en lour circuits come aylours, en temps le
Roy Edwarde le tierce, iadis Roy Dengleterre, ouesque un Table des
principall matters delplees del Corone.

Printed in Black Letter in Norman French, with Prologue in English.

Folio, original calf. London, Richard Tottell, 1561. £5 5s

1 00 1 — L' Estrange (Ro.). Tully's Offices. In three Books. Turned

out of Latin into English.

Small 8vo, original calf. L^ondon, 1680. 5s

212 MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W.

Law — continued.

1002 Littleton's Tenures, in English.

Black Letter. i2mo, original calf.

Imprinted at London in Fleetstrete^ within Temple Barre at the
signe of the Hand and Starre by Ry chard Tottill, 1583. £2 lOs

1004 March (John). Amicus Reipublicae. The Common-wealths

Friend. An Extract and Speedie Course to Justice and Right, and for
Preventing and Determining of Tedious Law-Suits.

i2mo, original calf. London, 165 1. 15s

1Q05 Philo-Dicaeus. The Triumphs of Justice over Unjust Judges.

Folio, new boards. London, 168 1. 16s

* * * The above work, dedicated to the Lord Chief Justice Scroggs, deals with the
Corruption of Judges, citing as examples, the 44 Justices hanged for false judg-
ments in one year during the reign of King Alfred, the case of the Ld Chief Justice
Tresilian in the reign of Richard 2nd, the crimes of Empson and Dudley in Henry
VIII. 's timej the proceedings of the Ship-money-Judges in the reign of Charles 1st,
etc.

1006 ^ Sheppard (Wm.). Englands Balme; or, Proposals by way of

Grievance and Remedy; humbly presented to His Highness and the
parliament, towards the Regulation of the Law, and better administra-
tion of Justice.

i6mo, original calf. London, 1657. £1 lOs

ioo/ Year Books of Edward Hi.

London, Tottyll, 1561.
Year Books of Edward Y.

London, Tottel, 1569.

Year Books of Henry IV.

Colophon at end ** Imprynted at London, 1570," while the date
on title-page is 1575.

Year Books of Henry VI.

London, Tottyl, 1570.
t Together, 4 vols., thick folio, original calf. 1561-75. £12 128

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1008 LAWRENCE (John). The Clergy-Man's Recreation: shewing the Plea-
sure and Profit of the Art of Gardening.

Frontispiece and three large folding plates.

8vo, original calf (jebacked).

London, Printed for Bernard Lintott, 1 7 16. £2 2s

1009 LEARN TO LYE WARM,

or. An Apology for that Proverb, Tis Good Sheltering under an Old
Hedge; containing Reasons, wherefore a Young Man should Marry an
Old Woman. Written in a Letter to K. D. by the Command of a per-
son of Honour.

Small 4to, half calf. London, 1672. £10 lOs

I GIG LE BLOND (Le Sieur Alexander). The Theory and Practice of Gar-
dening, wherein is fully handled all that relates to Fine Gardens, com-
monly called Pleasure-Gardens, as Parterres, Groves, Bowling-Greens,
etc. Translated from the French by John James of Greenwich.

With 3G engraved folding plates.

First Edition. Thick 4to, old original calf. Fine clean copy.

London, 1712. £6 6s

loioa Ditto. Second Edition.

Thick 4to, original calf (rebacked). London, 1728. £4 18s

iGii LEE (Nat.). Caesar Borgia, Son of Pope Alexander the Sixth. A

Tragedy.

First Edition. Small 4to, nezv boards. London, 1680. £3 3s

IG12 Constantino the Great. A Tragedy acted at the Theatre Royal

by their Majesties Servants.

First Edition. 4to, boards. London, 1684. ^* "^Os

The *' Epilog ae " is by John Dryden, and the "Prologue" contains the oft-quoted
couplet respecting the unmerited neglect of Spenser, Butler and Cowley.
'* Tell 'em how Spencer starv'd', how Cowley mourn'd,
How Butler's Faith and Service was return'd ; "

10 1 3 Gloriana; or, the Court of Augustus Caesar. Acted at the

Theatre Royal.

First Edition. Small 4to, new boards. London, 1676. £3 3s

10 1 4 Lucius Junius Brutus; father of his Country. A Tragedy.

First Edition. Sm^ll ^to, boards. London, i6%i. £4 10s

214 -MAGGS-BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Sheet, London, W.

Lee (Nat.) — continued.

10 1 5 The Massacre of Paris. A Tragedy.

First Edition. Small 4to, new boards. London, 1690. £2 2s

*** The last leaf contains *' A Catalogue of Some Plays," including: "Mr. Shake-
spear's Plays in one large fol. volume, containing 43 Plays," and Hamlet, Prince of
Denmark, King Lear, Julius Csesar, Merchant of Venice, Macbeth.

1016 Piso's Conspiracy. A Tragedy Acted at the Duke's Theatre.

First Edition. Small 4to, new boards.

Printed by T. M. for W. Cademan, at the Popes-Heady in the
Lower-Walk of the New Exchange, in the Strand, 1676. £3 17s 6d
This is Lee's Tragedy of Nero, a little altered.

10 1 7 Theodosius: or, The Force of Love. A Tragedy, acted by

their Royal Highnesses Servants at the Duke's Theatre, with the Musick
betwixt the Acts.

First Edition. Small 4to, half bound. London, 1680. £9 10s

*** This play met with great success. The scene lies in Constantinople. It was
assisted in the representation by several entertainments of singing in the solemnity
of Church Music, composed by Purcell, being the first he ever furnished for the
stage.

1018 The Tragedy of Nero, Emperour of Rome, as it is Acted at the

Theatre Royal.

First Edition. "^m-diSS. \Xo, boards. London, 167 S- £4 10s

*** Nat. Lee's First Play.

1 019 Dramatick Works.

Engravings by G. Vander Gucht.

2 vols., small 8vo. London, 1736. 10s 6d

Containing : (Edipus, Theodosious, Princess of Cleve, Lucius Brutus, Mithridates,
Caesar Borgia, Constantine the Great, Duke of Guise.

1020 LELAND (John). A Learned and True Assertion of the Original Life,
Actes, and Death of the most Noble, Valiant, and Renouned Prince
Arthur, King of Great Brittaine,

Who succeeding his Father Uther Pendragon, & right nobly governing
this Land sixe & twentie years, then dyed of a mortall wounde receyued
in battell, together with victory over his enemies.

Collected and written of late yeares in lattin by John Leyland,
newly translated into English by Richard Robinson.

Wo-odcut Coat of Arms on reverse of title {as usual, cut into).

Small 4to, full morocco gilt, g. e., by Riviere.

London, Imprinted by John Wolfe, 1582. £36

* * * The Extremely Rare First Edition. Written in defence of the authenticity of
the Arthurian fables, in reply to Polydore Vergil.

MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street. London, W. 215

102 1 L'ESTRANGE (Sir Roger). The Observator; or, Question and Answer.

The Complete Set of the 931 Original Numbers of this famous
periodical, together with the title-pages, prefaces and contents.

3 vols, in 2, thick folio, original calf. 168 1-6-7. ^"^0 lOs

* * * This periodical was commenced by vSir Roger L'Estrange for the purpose of
defending King James II. and his Court against the charge of Popery.

The first number appeared on Wednesday, 13 April, 1681, and it was originally
designed to appear twice a week, on Wednesdays and Saturdays. But after No. 30
(6 July, 1681), when the title was changed to "The Observator in Dialogue," and
the interlocutors were named Whig and Tory, three or four numbers usually
appeared eacli week. No. 113, on 18 March, 168^, bore as its sole heading " The
Observator," together with a list in small type of the subjects treated in the sheet.
The first series ended on Wednesday, 9 Jan., 168|, with No. 470. In the second
series, begun on Thursday, 10 Jan. 168|, the interlocutors were re-named Observator
and Trimmer. This series ended on Saturday, 7 Feb., 168^^, with No. 215. The
third and last series, beginning on Wednesday, 11 Feb. 168 1^, ended with No. 246 on
Wednesday, 9 March, 168f . Each series on its completion was issued separately in
volume form with indexes, and to the third volume (London, 1687) was prefixed
** A Brief History of the Times," dedicated to posterity, in which Oates and his
plot were finally exposed.

In this periodical L'Estrange dealt unsparingly with dissenters and whigs. In Nahum
Tate's contribution to " Absalom and Achitophel," pt. ii. (published in November,
1682), L'Estrange, under the name of Sheva, was extravagantly praised for his loyal
zeal in meeting in his paper the attacks on the government of " factious priests and
seditious scribes."

'* He with watchful eye
Observes and shoots their treasons as they fly,
Their weekly frauds his keen replies detect,
He undeceives more fast than they infect."

1022 A Very Remarkable Collection of 32 Pamphlets by Roger

L'Estrange (as listed under), all small 4to, with the exception of the
first, which is a large folded Broadside.

Very thick small 4to, original calf. 1679-1683. £18 18s

Comprises : —

The Committee or Popery in Masquerade. A large folio broadside — the upper part
occupied with a caricature Engraving, introducing Presbyterians, Quaker, Ranter,
Mugleton, Independent, etc., with poetical explanation below. London, 1681.

A Seasonable Memorial in some Historical Notes upon the Liberties of the Presse and
Pulpit. London, 1681.

Narrative of the Plot set forth for the Edification of His Majesties Liege-People. 1680.

Discovery upon Discovery. 1680.

A Further Discovery of the Plot. Dedicated to Dr. Titus Oates. 1681.

Tyranny and Popery Lording it over the Consciences, Lives, Liberties, and Estates
both of King and People. 1681.

The Free-born Subject : or, the Englishman's Birthright. 1681.

An Apology for the Protestants. 1681.

The Relaps'd Apostate. 1681.

(Continued over)

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L' Estrange (Sir Roger) — continued.

The Reformed Catholique : or, the True Protestant.

The Casuist Uncas'd in a Dialogue betwixt Richard and Baxter. 1680.

The Case Put, concerning the Succession of the Royal Highness the Duke of York. 1680

L'Estrange's Case in a Civil Dialogue betwixt Zekel and Ephraim. 1680.

Toleration Discuss'd in two Dialogues. 1681.

An Account of the Growth of Knavery. 1681.

Notes upon Stephen College. 1681.

A Word concerning Libels and Libellers. 1681.

The Reformation Re form' d : or, a Short History of Newfashioned Christians. 1661.

The Shammer Shamm'd. 1681.

Citt and Bumpkin. First Part. 1681.

Citt and Bumpkin. Second Part. 1681.

L'Estrange No Papist. 1681.

The Character of a Papist in Masquerade. 1681.

A Reply to the Second Part of the Character of a Popish Successor. 1681.

An Answer to the Appeal from the Country to the City. 1681.

L'Estrange His Appeal Humbly Submitted to the King's most Excellent Majesty and
the Three Estates assembled in Parliament. 1681.

A Memento. Treating of the Rise, Progress, and Remedies of Seditions. 1682.

The Accompt Clear 'd : In Answer to a Libel, intituled A True Account from
Chichester. 1682.

The Holy Cheat. 1682.

The Dissenters Sayings. 1683.

The Dissenters Sayings. Second Part. 1681.

Considerations upon a Painted Sheet entituled, the Speech of the late Lord Russell
to the Sheriffs. 1683.

Sir Roger L'Estrange, Tory Journalist and Pamphleteer, was born in 1616 and died
1704. In 1663 he was appointed '' Surveyor of the Imprimery," or Printing Presses.
All printing offices in England and vendors of books and papers were under his
control, and he was authorised to enter and search their houses. He was also one
of the licensers of the press, and had the sole privilege of writing, printing and
publishing anything of the character of a newspaper or public advertisement.

Dr. Johnson regarded him as the first writer upon record who regularly enlisted him-
self under the banners of a party for pay and fought for it through right and wrong.

1023 LEWIS (M. G.). Romantic Tales. Containing: Mistrust; The Admiral

Guarino; Bertrand and Mary Belle; The Lord of Falkenstein; The
Anaconda; The Dying Bridge; The Four Facardins; Oberon's Hench-
, man ; My Uncle's Garret-Window ; Bill Jones ; and Amorassan.

First Edition. 4 vols., post 8vo, original half calf.

London, 1808. £1 lOs

1024 LEYBOURN (Wm.). The Compleat Surveyor: containing the whole Art

of Surveying of Land, by the Plain Table, Theodolite, Circumferentor,
and Peractor ; hereunto is added the manner how to know whether Water
may be conveyed from a Spring head to any appointed place or not, &c.

For trait and diagrams.

Folio, original calf. London, 1653. £2 lOs

MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. 217

1025 LEYGESTER (John). The Civil Warres of England, briefly related from
His Majesties first setting up his Standard, 164 1, to this present
personall hopeful Treaty, with the lively Effigies and Eulogies of the
chief Commanders.

21 finely engraved copper-plate portraits.

Small 8vo, original calf. London, 1649. £6 18s

1026 LHOYD (H). The History of Cambria, now called Wales: a part of the
most f amour Yland of Brytaine, written in Brytish language above two
hundreth yeares past : translated into English by H. Lhoyd Gentleman :
Corrected, augmented and continued out of Records and best approoved
Authors, by David Powel Doctor in divinitie.

First Edition. Small 4to, Black Letter, old calf.

Imprinted at London by Rafe Newberrie and Henry Denhaniy 1584.

£7 10s

* * * This book is of importance and interest to the collector of Americana, as being
the first to attribute the discovery of America by Europeans to Madoc ap Owen
Gwyneth and his companions in the twelfth century. It is on the account of the
matter contained in this volume that all subsequent controversies on the question
have been founded.

102; LILLE (Abbe de). The Gardens, a Poem. Translated from the French.

With fine engraved frontispiece and 8 charming vignettes by F.
Bartolozzi.

Large 4to. Fine Copy in full conternporary straight- grained green
morocco by C . Kalthober, with binder^ s ticket, gilt back and borders to
sides, edges gilt. London, T . Bensley, 1798. £1 5s

1028 LILLO (Geo.). Fatal Curiosity; a true Tragedy of Three Acts.

8vo, new boards. London, 1737. 12s 6cl

* -jt * With Prologue written by Henry Fielding,

1029 LILLY (John). Sixe Court Comedies often Presented and Acted before

Queen Elizabeth by the Children of her Maiesties Chappell, and the
Children of Paules.

Written by the onely Rare Poet of that Time, the Witie Comical!
Facetiously-Quicke and unparalell'd John Lilly.

Thick i2mo, old calf {some headlines cut into).

London, Printed by William Stansby for Edward Blount, 1632.

£4 15s

First Collected Edition and the First in which the Lyrics appear. The Editor (E.
Blount), describes this collection as *' The greatest treasure our Poet left behind
him, are these six ingots of refined invention, richer than gold."

2f'8 MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W.

1030 LILLY (William, Student in Astrology). Monarchy or no Monarchy in
England.

Grebner his Prophecy concerning Charles Son of Charles, his Great-
nesse, Victories, Conquests.

The Northern Lyon, or Lyon of the North, and Chicken of the
Eagle discovered who they are, of what Nation.

English, Latin, Saxon, Scotish and Welch Prophecies concerning
England in particular^ and all Europe in generall.

Passages upon the Life and Death of the late King Charles.

Aenigmaticall Types of the future State and Condition of England
for many years to come.

With the Astrological Diagrams^ and the 19 curious full-page wood-
cuts at end.

First Edition. Small 4to, full calf.

London^ Printed for Humfrey Blunden^ 165 1. £8 15s

*** In this work Lilly asserted that ''England should no more be governed by a
King." Two of the Hieroglyph ical engravings he declared portrayed the Plague
and Fire of London respectively.

1031 LINCHE (Richard). The Fontaine of Ancient Fiction.

Wherein is lively depictured the Images and Statues of the Gods of
the Ancients, with their proper and perticular expositions.

Small 4to, calf, rebacked.

London, Printed by Adam I slip, 1599. £9 9s

*** In this " strange borne child of idlenesse," as he calls it, the author takes each
of the Latin Gods in turn, and then collates from classical writers the passages in
which his attributes are described.

032 LINCOLN. The Prisoner against the Prelate: or, A Dialogue between
the Common Goal and Cathedral of Lincoln. Wherein the true Faith
and Church of Christ are briefly discovered and vindicated. Written
by a Prisoner of the Baptised Churches in Lincolnshire (Thomas Gran-
tham).

Small 8vo, original calf. N.D, 15s

1033 LITANY (New). A New Litany for the Holy Time of Lent.

One leaf, folio, new boards. Oxford, circa 1688. 14s

A very scurrilous poem, with '* Imprimatur, Ob. Walker " at foot.

MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. 21^

1034 i-ITHGOW (William). The Totall Discourse, Of the Rare Adventures,
and painefull Peregrinations of long nineteene Yeares Travayles, from
Scotland, to the most Famous Kingdomes in Europe, Asia, and Africa.

Perfited by three deare bought Voyages, in Surveighing of Forty-eight
Kingdomes ancient and Moderne; twenty one Rei-publickes, ten abso-
lute Principalities, with two hundred Hands. With woodcut frontispiece.

Thick 4to, stamped calf {some blank margins restored).

London, 1632. * £10 10s

LITURGIES (PRAYER BOOKS, ETC.)-

1035 ^^ Accompt of all the Proceedings of the Commissioners of both Per-
swasions, appointed by his Sacred Majesty, according to Letters
Patents, for the Review of the Book of Common Prayer, etc.

London, 1661.

A Petition for Peace; with the Reformation of the Liturgy, as it was
presented to the Right Reverend Bishops by the Divines appointed by
His Majesties Commission. London, 166 1.

A Sober and Temperate Discourse, concerning the Interest of Words
in Prayer, the just Antiquity and Pedigree of Liturgies, or. Forms of
Prayer in Churches. London, 166 1.

The three tracts in i vol., small 4to, rough calf.

London, 1661. £1 lOs

1036 The Ancient Liturgy of the Church of Jerusalem, being the Liturgy of

St. James, Freed from all latter Additions and Interpolations of what-
ever kind, and so restored to it's Original Purity. With an English
Translation and Notes, as also an Appendix, containing some other
Ancient Prayers.

4to, half calf. London, 1744. £1 lOs

King Edward VIth Prayer Book.

1037 The Booke of the Common Praier & Administracion of the Sacramentes,

& other Rites & Ceremonies of the Churche; after the use of the Churche
of Englande.

Title within woodcut border.

First Edition. Folio, vellum.

London, Richard Grafton, 1549. , £35

Title repaired and a portion in facsimile, also with Signatures An. and Vi. and
the last leaf in facsimile.

220

MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W

Liturgies (Prayer Books, etc.) — continued.

Laud's Scottish Prayer Book.

1038 The Booke of Common Prayer, & Administration of the Sacraments &

other parts of Divine Service for the use of the Church of Scotland.
FoHo, original calf, rebacked. Edinburgh, 1637. £14 14s

*** The First Edition of Archbishop Laud's Scottish Prayer Book, the compulsory
use of which created such an uproar throughout Scotland.

Charles I.'s Common Prayer and Bible.

1039 The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of The Sacraments

and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of England.

Imprinted at London by Robert Barker, 1638.

The Holy Bible, conteyning the Old Testament and the New.

Title within an emblematic woodcut border.

Printed at London by Robert Barker, 1639.

The Whole Booke of Psalmes. Collected into English Meeter, by Thomas
Sternehold, John Hopkins, and others, conferred with the Hebrew, with
apt Notes to Sing them withall.

London, Printed by E. Griffin and I. Raworthy 1638. {One leaf
defective).

Together in one volume, small folio, contemporary morocco, gilt
leaves. [Sold]

*** KING CHARLES I.'s COPY, with his Royal Arms in gold on both covers.

Embroidered Binding.

1040 The Book of Common Prayer.

London, 1639.

The Holy Bible: Containing the Old Testament and the New.

London, 1639.

The Whole Book of Psalmes, Collected into EngKsh Meeter.

London, 1638.

Together in one vol., thick small 8vo. English embroidered binding
of the time of Charles I., ground work of white satin, on the upper cover
is full-length figure of Father Time with his scythe, enclosed in an oval
border of silver thread, raised flowers in the corners of coloured silk and
silver thread; on the lower cover is a full-length figure of a lady in a
blue dress, and holding in right hand a crown, enclosed in an oval border
of silver thread, raised flowers in corners of coloured silk and silver
thread, the back adorned with raised device of flowers and berries,
insect, and bird, in coloured silk and silver thread. £42

MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. 221

Liturgies (Prayer Books, etc.) — continued.

1 04 1 Book of Common Prayer.

A briefe Discourse of the troubles begun at Frankeford in Ger-
many, An. Dom. 1554, about the Booke of Common Prayer and Cere-
monies; and continued by the Enghshmen there, to the end of Q. Maries
Reign.

Small 4to, half calf. London^ 1642. 15s

The " Sealed Book " of Charles 2ND.

1042 The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments

and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church according to the Use
of the Church of England, together with the Psalter or Psalms of David.

Engraved title, -printed in Black Letter and ruled in red.

A Fine Copy in Conte7nporary full morocco, g. e.

London, 1662. £6 6s

* * * A Large Paper Copy of the " Sealed Book " of Charles 2nd, styled thus by reason
of the official copy being sealed with the Great Seal of England, and deposited in
the Tower of London. It is the First Edition of the Common Prayer, revised by a
Convocation of Clergy, and submitted to the Savoy Conference, and the last in
which any alteration was made by public authority.

At the end are Special Prayers to be used upon the Fifth day of November (Gun-
powder Plot), King Charles Martyr, King Charles 2nd's Birthday and Restoration.

Engraved Throughout.

1043 The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and

other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, according to the use of the
Church of England, together with the Psalter or Psalms of David.

Sturt's beautiful Edition, engraved by him on copper plates and
illustrated with portraits of George I. and Prince and Princess of Wales,
vignette engravings on nearly every page, ornamental border to title and
other decorations {as usual lacks the pointer to dial).

8vo. A beautiful copy in contemporary crimson morocco, sides
elaborately gold tooled all over (in the style of Mearne), g. e.

London, 1717. £6 10s

1044 The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments,
and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church According to the Use of
the Church of England, Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David,
Pointed as they are to be Sung or Said in Churches.

Sturt's beautiful Edition, with exquisite engraving at the head of
each page, surrounded by an ornamental border, ornamental initial
letters, and with portraits of King George and Prince and Princess of
Wales.

8vo. Contemporary English black morocco binding, sides elabo-
rately tooled in blind with decoration of floral sprays and circles and
semi-circles. London, John Baskett, 17 17. £2 18s

222 MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35. Conduit Street, London, W.

Liturgies (Prayer Books, etc.) — continued.

3045 The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments,
and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, According to the Use
of the Church of England : Together with the Psalter or Psalms of
David, Pointed as they are to be sung or said in Churches.

8vo. English Early \%th Century binding, black morocco y decorated
in the ** Cottage Roof " style, sides completely covered with gold tool-
ing composed of curves, circles, stars, dots, and floral ornamentation,
gut edges. London, Printed by John Baskett, 1726. £5 5s

1046 The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments,.

and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, according to the Use of
the Church of England, together with the Psalter or Psalms of David.

Thick royal 8vo. A fine copy in contemporary crimson morocco,
full gilt back, the sides containing a Cottage Roof design, and elabo-
rately decorated zvith vases y leafy scrolls^ birds ^ dogs, etc., g. e.

Cambridge, Baskerville, 1760. £25

1047 Confession of Faith; together with the Larger and Lesser Catechismes

composed by the Assembly of Divines at Westminster.

Small 4to, original calf. (1658.) £1 Is

The Commonwealth Prayer Book.

1048 A Directory of the Publike Worship of God throughout the Three King-

domes of England, Scotland, and Ireland. Together with an Ordinance
of Parliament for the taking away of the Book of Common-Prayer, and
for establishing and observing of this present Directory throughout the
Kingdom of England, and Dominion of Wales.

46 pp., 4to, unbound. London, March 13, 1646. £2 2s

1049 Henry Ylll. The Primer set furth by the Kinges Majestie & his clergie

to be taught lerned and red, & none other to be used thorowout all his
Dominions. Imprinted at London by Richard Grafton, XVII August,
1546. Reprinted without any Alteration. Portrait.

Post 8vo, original calf, rebacked. Circa 1750. ' 18s

1050 L' Estrange (Hamon). The Alliance of Divine Offices, exhibiting all the

Liturgies of the Church of England since the Reformation : as also the
late Scotch Service-Book, with all their respective variations. And upon
them all Annotations.

The Third Edition. To which are added, in this Edition, The
Form of Ordination, etc., Additions and Alterations in the Liturgy,
etc.. Prayers in the Convocation, Form of Prayer used in K. Ch.
Second's Chapel at the Hague, Prayers in the time of an Invasion,
Prayers at the Healing.

Small folio, original calf. London, 1699, £1 lOs

MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. 223

Liturgies (Prayer Books, etc.) — continued.

105 I The Orthodox Communicant, by way of Meditation on the Order for the
Administration of the Lord's Supper, or Holy Communion.

Engraved throughout with vignettes at heady and ornamental
borders.

Small 8vo, contemporary morocco^ blind tooled.

London, J. Sturt^ 1721. £1 15s

Original Manuscript.

1^52 Pious Devotions to be used upon several occasions. Written Anno
Domini 1645,

A very legibly written Original Manuscript on 1 17 leaves, small 8vo,
171 its original binding of full morocco, with the initials L. N . on sides.

£5 5s

An interesting volume of Private Prayers, prefaced by Poems signed T. N. " Upon
this Booke of pious devotions," ''To ye devotte Soule," "On the Authore of these
Pious devotions." It concludes with 77 pp. of "Private formes of prayer, fit for
these sad times, written in ye yeare 1645."

1053 Queen Elizabeth's Prayer Book. A Booke of Christian Praiers, collected

out of the Ancient Writers ; worthy to be read with an earnest minde
of all Christians in these dangerous and troublesome times.

Full-length woodcut portrait of Queen Elizabeth kneeling, on
reverse of title; each page surrounded with wood engravings of the Dance
of Death ^ Biblical Scenes, etc.

Small 4to, bound by Bedford in full broivn morocco gilt, gilt leaves.

London, 1608. £14 I4s

1054 Sarum Manual. Sacra Institutio Baptizandi. Matrimonium Celebrandi,

Infirmos Ungendi Mortuos Sepeliendi, ac alii nonnulli Ritus Ecclesias-
tici Juxta usum insignis Ecclesia Sarisburiensis.

Printed in red and black.

Small 4to, original vellum. Duaci, 1604. ^15 ISs

* * -jt Very rare. Portions of the Baptism and Marriage Service are in English.

The Douay editions of the Manual (of which none appear to have been printed after
1610) were carried into England by disguised priests and seldom escaped destruction
when their owners were caught or hunted. Hence they are comparatively more rare
than even those of Queen Mary's time — In fact this book was still more obnoxious
to the authorities than even the " Missale Parvum " printed at the same time. The
''Idolatrous Ceremonies" which the disguised priests used to perform with th&
help of this work, were the most dangerous and detested portions of their labour.

224 MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W.

Liturgies (Prayer Books, etc.) — continued.

J 05 5 The Service, Discipline and Forme, of the Common Prayers and Ad-
ministration of the Sacraments, used in the English Church of Geneva.
As it was approved by that most reverend Divine, M. John Calvin, and
the Church of Scotland. Humbly presented to the most High Court of
Parliament, this present yeare 1641.

Small 4to, new boards, London ^ 164 1. lOs 6d

1506 Liturgical Tracts. Collection of 13 Tracts. 1637-1643.

Small thick 4to, original calf. £3 lOs

XI) The Holy Table, Name, and Thing more anciently, properly and literally used

under the New Testament than that of an altar.
(2) A Display of Arminianisme, being a discovery of the old Pelagian Idol Free-will,

with the new Goddesse Contingency by John Owen.
^3) The Hypocrite discovered and cured, by Samuel Torshell. •

■(4) The Laws and Statutes of Geneva.

(0) The Star to the Wise, 1643; the Lady Eleanor her petition.
(6) Satisfaction concerning Mixt Communions ; in answer to the doubts of some, who

abstain from the Sacrament of the Lords Supper, because wicked persons are present.

Etc., etc., etc.

First English Edition of Livy.

1058 LIVY. The Romane Historic written by T. Livius of Padua: also the
Breviaries of L. Florus : with a Chronologic to the whole Historic, and
the Topographic of Rome in old time: translated out of Latine in
English by Philemon Holland.

Woodcut portrait. Thick folio, original calf gilt.
London^ Printed by Adam Islify 1600. £10 lOs

* * * A Sound and Tall Copy of the First English translation of this great Classic.

1059 LLOYD (Robert). The Capricious Lovers. A Comic Opera, as it is per-

formed at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane. The Music composed by
Mr. Rush.

First Edition, "^mo, new boards. London, i'j6^. £1 Is

1060 LOBEIRA (Vasco). Amadis of Gaul, from the Spanish Version of Gar-
ciordonez de Montalvo, by Robert Southey.

4 vols., i2mo, old calf. London , 1803. 16s

MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. 225

1061 LOCKE (John). A Collection of Several Pieces of Mr. John Locke,

never before printed, or not extant in his Works.

8vo, original calf^ rebacked. London ^ 1720. £1 lOs

1062 A Letter concerning Toleration.

London^ 1689.
A Second Letter concerning Toleration.

London^ 1690.

Both First Editions. Small 4to, new boards.

London, 1889-90. £2 lOs

1063 A Letter to the Right Reverend Edward Ld Bishop of Worcester,

concerning some Passages relating to Mr. Locke's Essay on Human
Understanding; in a late discourse of his Lordship's in Vindication of
the Trinity.

First Edition. 8vo, original calf. London, 1697. £1 Is

1064 Some Considerations of the Consequences of the Lowenng of

Interest and Raising the Value of Money.

First Edition. i2mo, original calf. London, 1692. £1 lOs

1065 Two Treatises of Government. In the former the False Prin-
ciples and Foundation of Sir Robert Filmer are detected. The latter is
an Essay concerning Civil Government.

8vo, original calf. London, 1698. . . 9s

1066 Two Treatises of Government. Another Edition.

Portrait. 8vo, full contemporary red morocco. London, 1764. tSS
Brand Hollis's copy, with his emblematic designs on the binding.

1067 Posthumous Works, viz.:

I. Of the Conduct of the Understanding.

II. An Examination of P. Malebranche's Opinion of Seeing all
things in God.

III. A Discourse of Miracles.

IV. Part of a Fourth Letter for Toleration.

V. Memoirs relating to the Life of Anthony first Earl of Shaftsbury.

To which is added,

VI. His New Method of a Common-Place-Book, written originally in
French, and now translated into English.

First Edition. 8vo, original calf.

London, Printed by W . B. for A. and J. Churchill, 1706. £1

226 MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W.

Rebuilding of London after the Fire.

T068 LONDON, Broadside. An Act declaring what Streets and straight
and narrow Passages within the City of London and Liberties thereof,
Ijurnt down in the late dismall Fire, shall be enlarged and made wide,
and to what proportion; for notification thereof to the Owners or Parties
interested in the Ground to be taken away for the said enlargements.

Broadside, printed on one side of two folio sheets, with the Arms
of London at head of first sheet.

Printed by James Flesher, Printer to the Honourable City of London
(1667). £10 10s

1069 Brydall (J.). Camera Regis; or, A Short View of London, con-
taining the Antiquity, Fame, Walls, Bridge, River, Gates, Tower,
Cathedral, Officers, Courts, Customs, Franchises, etc.

8vo, original calf. London^ 1676. 15s

1 0/0 Charter House. A Relation of the Proceedings at Charter-
House, Upon Occasion of KiNG JAMES the IL His presenting a PAPIST
To be admitted into that HOSPITAL In Vertue of His Letters Dispen-
satory.

^ pp., folio, new boards. London, Printed for Walter Kettilby, at
the Bishop' s-Head in St. PauVs Church-Yard, 1689. ^2 2s

1 07 1 The City of London's Plea to the Quo Warranto. An Informa-
tion brought against their Charter In Michaelmas Term, 1681. Wherein
It will Appear, That the Liberties, Priviledges, and Customs of the said
City cannot be Forfeited, or Lost by the Misdemeanor of any Officer or
Magistrate thereof. Nor their Charter be Seized into the King's Hands
for any Mis-usage or Abusage of their Liberties and Priviledges, they
being Confirmed by divers Ancient Records and Acts of Parliament
made before and since Magna Charta. Also How far the Commons of
the said City have Power of Chusing and Removing their Sheriffs.

31 pp., folio, new boards. London, Printed in the Year 1682. £1 Is

1072 The Replication to the City of London's Plea to the Quo War-
ranto brought against their Charter, by Our Sovereign Lord the King
In Michaelmas Term, 1681.

13 pp. London, 1682.

The Sub-Rejoinder of Mr. Attorney General to the Rejoinder Made
on the behalf of the Charter Of the City of London.

1 1 pp. Together in i vol. , folio, neiv boards.

London, Printed for 5. Mearne, 1682. £1 1s

MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. 227

London — continued.

1073 Fire of London. A True and Faithful Account of the Several

Informations exhibited to the Honourable Committee appointed by the
Parliament to Inquire into the late Dreadful Burning of the City of
London, together with other Informations touching the Insolency of
Popish Priests and Jesuites and the Increase of Popery brought to the
Honourable Committee appointed by the Parliament for that purpose.

35 pp., small 4to, unbound. London^ 1667. ^^ ^S

Honourable the Lord Mayor, and the Noble Company of Batchelors
Dining with him, May 5th, 1669.

Poem in 4 11. S.L.^ Printed in the Year 1670.

i2mo, half bound (the catchwords of 2 11. cropped). £1 lOs

1075 Hall (Rev. Francis). An Examination of the Diall set up in the

Kings Garden at London in 1669. In which very many sorts of Dyalls
are contained by which besides the Houres of all kinds diversly ex-
pressed many things also belonging to Geography, Astrology, and
Astronomy are by the Sunnes shadow made visible to the eye, amongst
which very many dialls, especially the most curious, are new inventions,
hitherto divulged by none. Many curious copperplate engravings.

60 pp., small 4to, unbound. Liege ^ 1673. £3 15s

Shakespeare's London.

1076 Londinum Antiqua. This plan shews the Antient extent of the

famous Cities of London and Westminster as it was near the beginning
of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, by Randulp Aggus, 1578.

Large plan, measuring 75 by 36 inches, re-engraved by Vertue and
published by Society of Antiquaries, 17 '^y, mounted on linen and folded
to Zvo size, in case, half calf. £3 3s

* * * Only two copies of the Original Issue of 1578 are known.

1077 Ogilby (John). The Relation of His Majesties Entertainment

passing through the City of London, to his Coronation, with a Descrip-
tion of the Triumphal Arches and Solemnity.

First Edition. Folio, an uncut copy in boards,

London, 1661. £2 lOs

22S MAGGS BROS., 34 & 33, Conduit Street, London, W

London — continued.

Cromwell's War Tax on London.

1078 An Ordinance and Declaration of the Lords and Commons, that

the Lord Major and Citizens of the City of London, for the better
securing and safety thereof, shall have full power and authority accord-
ing to their discretion, to trench, stop, and fortifie all high-waies leading
into the said City, as well within the Liberties, as without, as they shall
see cause. And for the better effecting thereof, shall impose upon all the
Inhabitants within the same, upon every house worth 5I. a yeare six
pence, and every house of greater rent after the rate of two pence in the
pound. Also, an Ordinance of both houses for an Assessment to be
made in the severall Parishes of England for the relief e of maymed
Souldiers, Widdows, and Fatherlesse children.

6 pp., small 4to, unbound. London^ 1642. £2 2s

1079 St. Paul's Cathedral. His Majesties Commission giving power

to enquire of the Decayes of the Cathedral Church of St. Paul in
London, & for the repairing of the same.

Smdll 4to, full russia gilt. London, 163 1. £1 14s

1080 St. Paul's Cathedral. Three Poems of St. Paul's Cathedral,

viz.. The Ruins, The Rebuilding, The Choire.

12 pp., folio, /lalf morocco. 1697. £1 5s

108 1 Stationers Company, The Charter and Grants of the Company

of Stationers of the City of London, now in force, containing an
account of the Freemen's Rights & Privileges fairly protliiced and
explained in order to ascertain the Authority annexed to the Office of
Master & Wardens; an Appendix shewing that the Court of Assistants
was imposed upon the Freemen by a charter granted by Charles IL

Vost^wo, original calf . London, 1741. 10s 6d

1082 Warrant sent from the Lord Major and' Aldermen, to all the

trained Bands in London, and the Liberties thereof.

6 pp., small 4to, new boards, leather label. L^ondon, 1642. £2 2s

1083 — Waterhouse (Edward). A Short Narrative of the late Dreadful

Fire in London: Together with certain Considerations remarkable
therein, and deducible therefrom; not unseasonable for the Perusal of
this Age. Written by way of Letter to a Person of Honour and Virtue.

i2mo, original calf.

London, Printed by W . G. for Rich. Thrale, 1667. £2 2s

MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. 229

1084 LORDS (House of). Orders Concerning Mr. Seldens Collection of
Records of Precedents touching Nobility made by Order & for the use
of the House of Peers. A.D. 1620, 162 1.

Original Manuscrij)t signed at foot of the sixth page by WILLIAM
COWPER, Clerk of Parliament. 173I.

Folio. English i^th Century binding y crimson morocco y elaborate
decoration in centre of both covers in delicate gold toolingy gold dentelle
border consisting of crownSy roses y thistlesy shamrocky crosseSy and floral
sprays y g. e. £12 lOs

King George IIIrd's Copy.

1085 Remembrances for Order and Decency to be kept in the Upper

House of Parliament by the Lords when His Majesty is not there. . .
Leaving the Solemnity belonging to His Majesty's coming to be Mar-
shall'd by those Lords to whom it more properly . . . appertains.

Contemporary Manuscript neatly written on 163 pages and ruled
with red lines.

8vo. Contemporary binding of crimsin morocco y gold -panel sides y
with floral ornamentation y and in centre the Royal Arms of King George
Ill.y full gilt backy gilt edges. Circa 1767. £3 3s

King George HIrd's Copy. .

1086 Standing Orders from 1660 to 1814. Manuscript.

Thick 8vo, contemporary red morocco gilty with Arms of King
George III. on sides y g. e. 15s

1087 LOREDANO (G. F.; a Noble Venetian). The Ascents of the Soul; or,

David's Mount towards God's House, being Paraphrases on the Fifteen
Psalms of Degrees; rendered into English.

With brilliant impression of the frontispiece by Faithorney contain-
ing portrait and a view of Venice. Londony 168 1.

La Scala Santa; or, a Scale of Devotions, Musical and Gradual; in metre,
with the Music. Engraved frontispiece. Londony 168 1.

In one vol., folio. Fine Copy bound by Pratt y full dark blue
morocco y gilt edges. 168 1. £10 lOs

1088 LOTTERIES. An Elegaick Essay upon the Decease of the Groom-

Porter and the Lotteries.

FoHo, new boards. London^ 1700. lOs 6d

230 MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W.

1089 LOVE (James, Comedian). Cricket, an Heroic Poem, illustrated with
the Critical Observations of Scriblerus Maximus, to which is added An
Epilogue, caird Bucks Have at Ye AIL Spoken by Mr. King, at the
Theatre Royal in Dublin in the character of Ranger in the Suspicious
Husband.

First Edition. Small 4to, unbound and uncut.

London^ Printed for the Author^ i77o. £5 5s

" The following little Poem . . . may serve to entertain the true lovers of Cricket,
by a Recollection of many Particulars, at a time when the game was cultivated with
the utmost assiduity, and patroniz'd by the personal appearance and management of
some of the most capital people in the Kingdom." (Preface.)

1090 LOVEDAY (Robert). Hymen's Praeludia; or. Love's Master-Piece.
Being that So-much Admired Romance, intituled Cleopatra. In twelve
parts. Written originally in the French, and now elegantly rendred into
English, by Robert Loveday.

Thick small folio, original calf. London, 1698. 188

* * * The first four leaves mended.

1091 LOVELL (Robt.). Sive Panzoologicomineralogia; or, a Compleat His-
tory of Animals and Minerals, Containing the Summe of all Authors,
both Ancient and Modern, Galenicall and Chymicall, touching Animals,
viz.. Beasts, Birds, Fishes, Serpents, Insects and Man. With the
Anatomy of Man, his Diseases, with their Definitions, Causes, Signs,
Cures, Remedies. Also a History of Minerals.

Small thick 8 vo, (7/^ ^^//. Oxford, 1661. . £2 28

1092 LOWER (Wilham). The Phaenix in her Flamee. A Tragedy.

Small 4to. Fine Copy, bound by Riviere in full morocco, g. e.
London, Printed by Thomas Harper, 1639. £9 98

*** This play is at the same time the rarest and liveliest of Lower's printed works.
Genest gives an abstract of the plot, which he describes as '' romantic, but
interesting."

1093 LUPTON (Donald). The History of, the Moderne Protestant Divines.

Containing their Parents, Countries, Education, Studies, Lives, &
the yeare of our Lord in which they dyed. With a true register of all
their severall Treatises, & Writings that are extant, faithfully translated
out of Latine by D. L.

Engraved title in compartments, also 45 portraits, including Eras-
mus, Melanchthon, Luther, Calvin, Beza, Bale^ Tindall, Foxe, etc., etc.

Small 8vo, original calf . London, 1637. £3 36

MAGGS BROS., 34 & 35, Conduit Street, London, W. 231

1094 LYLIE (John). Euphues. The Anatomy of Wit. Verie pleasant for all
Gentlemen to reade, and most necessarie to remember. Wherein are
contained the delights that Wit foUoweth in his youth, by the pleasant-
ness of Love : and the happinesse he reapeth in age, by the perfectnes
of wisedome. London, 161 3.

' Euphues and his England. Containing his voiage and adventures: Mixed
with sundry pretty discourses of honest love, the description of the
Country, the Court, and the manners of the lie.

Delight full to be read, and nothing hurt full to be regarded : where-
in there is small offence by lightnesse given to the wife, and lesse occa-
sion of loosenes proffered to the wanton. London, 1609.

2 vols, in I, small 4to. A Magnificent Copy in the original vellum
binding. London, Printed for William Leake. £42

*** ''Numerous passages have been pointed out in Shakespeare's plays as proofs of
his extensive indebtedness to Lyly's 'Euphues' for sentiments and phrases.
Polonius's advice to Laertes is borrowed from Euphues's advice to Philantus, but
many other parallels for it might be found. It is more certain that Shakespeare
ridiculed Lyly's style in his earliest comedy, Love's Labour's Lost, and accurately
caricatured its vapid artificiality in Falstaff's remark, ' Though the camomile, the
more it is trodden on the faster it grows, yet youth, the more it is wasted the
sooner it wears.'

'' Shakspere, too, may have been indebted to ' Euphues ' for many of his notions abqut
such birds and animals as pelicans, ostriches, crocodiles, basilisks, and scorpions.
Mr. Rushton, in his book ' Shakspeare's Euphuism ' brings forward more than a
hundred passages in the plays on various subjects, taken, more or less directly, from
Lyly's work, though many of them are proverbs and allusions such as might have
occurred to both writers independently. The better-known animals that Lyly intro-
duces, both in ' Euphues ' and in his dramatic works, are almost always mixed up
with some absurd superstitions or wild exaggeration, and in these too he is followed
by Shakspere.

** It is cited, too, by Douce in his 'Illustrations' of 'The Merchant of Venice'." —
(Shakespeareana) .

1095 Euphues the Anatomie of Wit. Corrected and Augmented.

London, Printed by John Haviland, 1636.

Euphues and His England.

London, John Haviland, 1636.

Together both parts in i vol., small 4to, handsomely bound by
Riviere in full levant morocco extra, g. e. £28

" ' Euphues ' is a story, relating the adventures, correspondence, and conversations
of a young gentleman of Athens, who gives his name to the work, and of his friend
Philautus, a native of Naples. The young men are engaged in the pursuit of a
strictly moral training. Tne scene of the first part is laid in Naples, that of the

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second part in England. There is practically no action, and the author mainly dis-
cusses educational or religious problems, love, and the proper conduct of life. The
section on education, called * Euphues and his Euphoebus,' is directly borrowed from
Plutarch on ' Education.' When treating of England, the author introduces some
shrewd comments on the extravagances of his contemporaries' fashions of dress.
But the leading interest of the book lies in its prose style, which is chiefly charac-
terised by a continuous straining after antithesis and epigram. Lyly, when enforc-
ing his sententious moralisings, delights in long series of short parallel sentences,
all in the same syntactical form, and embodying fantastic similes drawn from
natural history or classical mythology. Pliny's * Natural History ' appears to have
supplied him with many of his illustrations, as Plutarch supplied him with much of
his sentiment. He had at the same time an ear for alliteration, and was liberal in
the use of the rhetorical question." — (D.N.B.)

1096 LYTTELTON (George, Lord). Poetical Works.

Finely printed at the Foulis Press.

Folio, calf gilL Glasgow, Andrew Faults, lySy. £1 12s 6(1

Printed by Wynkyn de Worde.

109; LYNDEWODE (Wilhelmus). Constitutiones Provinciales Ecclesie
Anglicae.

Gothic Letter. First leaf with title and a woodcut of Lindwood,
full length, in his -pontificals , with a pastoral staff in his hand, and
Caxton^s device (used by Wynkyn de Worde) on last page.

Small 8vo, full morocco with wide and elaborately gold tooled den-
telle, by Clarke.

Westminster^ Wynkyn de Worde, In domo Caxston, 1496. £225

* * * A very fine copy of this exceedingly rare book, with wide margins, the blank
margins of four or five leaves mended, touching two or three words.

The Provinciale is a digest of the synodal Constitution of the Province of Canterbury
from the time of Stephen Langton to that of Henry Chichele, and is the principal
authority for English Canon Law.

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